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Korean
한국어
Speakers ~ 80,000,000
Worldmap.jpg
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

Sejong.jpg

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 
Hangul.png

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