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Worldwide, there are around 78 million Korean speakers. It is the official language of both North and South Korea and is spoken widely in neighbouring Yanbian, China as well as large expatriate groups in the former Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and more recently, the Philippines.
The Korean language was originally written using "Hanja", the Chinese writing system. It is now mainly written in “Hangul”, the Korean alphabet, with some Hanja mixed in. Hangul consists of 24 letters (14 consonants and 10 vowels) that are combined into blocks of 2 to 5 characters. Unlike the Chinese writing system, Hangul is not an ideographic system.
Traditionally, Korean was written in columns from top to bottom, right to left, in keeping with most other East Asian languages. Today, Korean writing generally reads from left to right, top to bottom (as is English), though some texts such as poetry, are still written in columns. Korean punctuation marks are almost identical to Western ones and, unlike Chinese and Japanese, modern Korean is written with spaces between words.
Did you know? The government in South Korea still teaches 1600 Hanja (Chinese characters) to its children.
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