XO Korea/Korean

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Korean 한국어
Speakers	~ 80,000,000
Countries	Korea, North Korea, Korean Chinese, Korean Japanese, Korean American.
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

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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