Korean | |
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Native speakers | 75 million (2007)[1] |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ko |
ISO 639-2 | kor |
ISO 639-3 | kor |
Glottolog | kore1280 |
![]() Korean dialects in Korea and neighboring areas |
A number of Korean dialects (Korean: 한국어의 방언) are spoken on the Korean Peninsula. The peninsula is very mountainous and each dialect's "territory" corresponds closely to the natural boundaries between different geographical regions of Korea. Most of the dialects are named for one of the traditional Eight Provinces of Korea. Two are sufficiently distinct from the others to be considered separate languages, the Jeju and the Yukjin languages.