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identification: "Pyongyang Pansong-imnida" Spoken in Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North) and Republic of Korea (South).
Korean may well be distantly related to the Altaic languages, or possibly to the Japanese language.
More than half the Korean vocabulary is Chinese in origin with one of the two writing methods employing the original Chinese characters but with Korean pronunciation when read.
Korean has a breathy sound (especially the consonants), it sounds like Malay/Indonesian . In Korean, both the r and l sounds are used (but not distinguished).
A good way to identify Korean is to listen for words ending in -yo or -imnida. Similarly, Japanese words tend to end in -desu (often pronounced "dess") and -imasu. - thanks to Michael Welles.
Station
identification: "Pyongyang Pansong-imnida"
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Korean | N and S Korea, Japan, China, CIS | Isolate (?Altaic) | 50-60m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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