XO Korea/Korean

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Korean 한국어
Speakers	~ 80,000,000
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 

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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