Langenesis

Koreanic family

Korean

1600 CE – today Living

Korean (1600 CE – today) is a living Koreanic language. Lineage: Proto-Koreanic → Old Korean → Middle Korean → Korean.

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Speakers
81M (81,000,000)
ISO 639-3
kor
Glottocode
kore1280

Covers Early Modern Korean (1600–1900) and Modern Korean (1900–present). North and South Korean standards have diverged somewhat in vocabulary and pronunciation since 1945 but remain mutually intelligible.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Koreanicc. 300 BCE – 0 CE
  2. Old Koreanc. 300 CE – 918 CE
  3. Middle Korean900 CE – 1600 CE
  4. Korean1600 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Middle Korean.

Sources