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  2. Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Hangul is the official writing system throughout Korea, both North and South. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. Hangul has also seen limited use by speakers of the Cia-Cia language in Indonesia.

  3. Korean language - Wikipedia

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    Korean ( South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [ a][ 2] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea .

  4. Hangul consonant and vowel tables - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; Македонски ... Hangul ㅏ: ㅓ: ㅗ: ㅜ: ㅡ: ㅣ ... This first sequence is official in South Korea (and is the basic binary order of ...

  5. Korean Language Society - Wikipedia

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    Han'gŭl Hakhoe. The Korean Language Society ( Korean : 한글 학회) is a society of hangul and Korean language research, founded in 1908 by Ju Sigyeong. It promotes hangul exclusive writing. Hangul Day was founded in 1926 during the Japanese occupation of Korea by members of the Korean Language Society, whose goal was to preserve the Korean ...

  6. Romanization of Korean - Wikipedia

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    Korean writing systems. The romanization of Korean ( Korean : 로마자 표기법; RR : romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has become infrequent.

  7. List of Korean surnames - Wikipedia

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    List of Korean surnames. This is a list of Korean surnames, in hangul alphabetical order. The most common Korean surname (particularly in South Korea) is Kim ( 김 ), followed by Lee ( 이) and Park ( 박 ). These three surnames are held by around half of the ethnic Korean population. This article uses the most recent South Korean statistics ...

  8. Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Hangul ( Korean : 한글) is the native script of Korea. It was created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, [ 1][ 2] as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja. Initially denounced by the educated class as eonmun (vernacular writing; 언문, 諺文 ), it only became the primary Korean script following ...

  9. Korean language and computers - Wikipedia

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    Korean language and computers. A South Korean keyboard using Dubeolsik layout. The writing system of the Korean language is a syllabic alphabet of character parts ( jamo) organized into character blocks ( geulja) representing syllables. The character parts cannot be written from left to right on the computer, as in many Western languages.