Skip to main content
Korean language

Korean language

1 2.7
The language spoken in North and South Korea and by people from Korea around the world
  • noun
translation icon : idioma coreano
  • It would also be important to develop community-based Korean language and cultural centers where Korean American adolescents can practice the Korean language and learn more about Korean culture.

And part of it's because sometimes people try to make me feel inauthentic because my Korean language skills are actually quite poor.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Eisenhower Elementary housed a Korean language immersion program with academic subjects taught in Korean.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Thus, many Korean American students have no "official" channels for learning their Korean language and culture.

    Academic text (2005)
  • It's an event all about Korean culture, the Korean language, and of course, K-pop!

    Blog text (32)
  • The Korean language has a relatively transparent orthography where phoneme-grapheme correspondences are largely consistent, and truly irregular words do not exist (Kim, 2011).

    Academic text (2013)
  • Many students around the world are enrolling in classes to learn the Korean language.

  • In South Korea, the Korean language is used in all official government communications.

  • I enjoy studying the Korean language because it has a unique writing system.

Synonyms

Korean
vsKorean language
29 2.7

The language that people speak in South Korea and North Korea

is the official national language and used by communities worldwide

Surface Forms

Morphology

Korean + language

The meaning is directly compositional: 'Korean' (relating to Korea) + 'language' (a system of communication) yields 'the language of Korea'. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common noun + noun/adj construction that a B1 learner who knows the constituents will easily understand.

Etymology

Korean language gets its name from Korea, a country name that comes from an old kingdom called 'Goryeo'. People there later made a simple alphabet called 'Hangul' to show how the words sound, so Korean language now means the unique language spoken in both North and South Korea.