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| name_native = 한국어 |
| name_native = 한국어 |
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| number_of_speakers = ~ 80,000,000 |
| number_of_speakers = ~ 80,000,000 |
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| countries = [[OLPC Korea|Korea]], North Korea, Korean Chinese, |
| countries = South [[OLPC Korea|Korea]] (한국), North Korea (조선), Korean Chinese(조선족), Koreans in Japan (재일동포), Koreans in the USA (재미교포), Koreans in the old Soviet Unions (고려인). |
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| image_map = [[Image:worldmap.jpg]] |
| image_map = [[Image:worldmap.jpg|Rectangles represent Korean communities]] |
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| official_status = official |
| official_status = official |
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Revision as of 22:49, 1 May 2007
- Learned from user:Xavi's page for Spanish.
| Korean 한국어 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Speakers | ~ 80,000,000 | |
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| Countries | South Korea (한국), North Korea (조선), Korean Chinese(조선족), Koreans in Japan (재일동포), Koreans in the USA (재미교포), Koreans in the old Soviet Unions (고려인). | |
| Status | official | |
| Unicode | ||
| Direction | ||
| Alphabet | [1] | |
| ISO 639-1: | ko | |
| ISO 639-2: | kor | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | kor [2] | |
Korean, the language of Korea is included in unicode 1100~11FF as Hangul Jamo. Hangul (한글) is the only native language not naturally arisen but invented by human beings, the Emperor Sejong
and a few scholars, between AD 1443~1526.
l10n
- Character sets
- Unicode supported.
- Script layout
- is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Fully supported by Pango the layout engine chosen.
- Fonts
- see Hangul
File:Korean.png
Korean keyboard
- Keyboard
- OLPC Korean Keyboard will fully supports the language
- Input methods
- except for 'standard' keyboard and touchpad would suffice for general use, although special considerations would be needed for physical dissabilities.
- Speech synthesis
- there is not so wide variances region to region compared to other languages such as Chinese.
- Dictionaries, Spelling Checkers, Thesaurus
- are very much developed in Korean
- aspell
- Korean is treated as a single language unit, without regional/national divisions. Code:ko Name: Korean Script: Hangul Jamo Available: Status:
- mozilla
- coming soon.
- abiword
- coming soon..
- OpenOffice
- coming soon...
- Character recognition
- This article is a stub. You can help the OLPC project by expanding it.
Alphabet
ㄱ, ㄴ, ㄷ, ㄹ, ㅁ, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅇ, ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅍ, ㅎ ㅏ, ㅑ, ㅓ, ㅕ, ㅗ, ㅛ, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅡ, ㅣ
Formats
- Date
- Traditionally, dates are in the YY/MM/DD
- Numbers
- use the -9.999,99 format (period for thousands and coma for decimal, prefix sign).
Population
48,000,000 South Korea official (2006)
22,200,000 North Korea estimation (2002 )
1,600,000 Koreans in Japan estimation (2002)
1,900,000 Korean Chinese official (2006)
200,000 Korean in Old Soviet estimation (2006)
2,000,000 Korean in the USA estimation (2006)
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75,900,000 TOTAL