Languages

Language: 언어(言語) 어 (語) is the Korean-Chinese word for language. This can easily be replaced with 말, the native Korean word for language, in any of the examples that contain 어 below. Note that the only exception is 영어 and 일어 (yet there is such thing as 일본말) which are always usually 영어 and 일어.

List

※ For more than one word for each, the most frequently used words come first.

• 한국어 (韓國語) - Korean (South)
  • 북한어(北韓語) - Korean (North); Originally North Korean is almost same with what South Korean people speak, but is used to distinguish those two individually.
  • 조선어 - Korean; 조선어 refers to Korean, which was commonly used during the early 1900's under Japanese rule. This is not used anymore.
• 영어 - English
• 일본어/일어 (日本語/日語) - Japanese
• 중국어 (中國語) - Chinese
  • 광동어 - Cantonese
• 독일어, 독어(獨語) - German
• 프랑스어, 불어(佛語), 불란서어(佛蘭西語; 불란서 is a transliterated form of France) - French
• 스팬어, 에스파냐어,스페인어, 서반아어(西班牙語; 서반아 is a transliterated form of España)- Spanish
• 포르투갈어 - Portuguese
• 이탈리아어, 이태리어(伊太利語; 이태리 is a transliterated form of Italy) - Italian
• 러시아어, 노어(露語), 아어(俄語), 노서아어(露西亞語; 노서아 is a transliterated form of Russia) - Russian
• 아랍어, 아라비아어 - Arabic
• 필리핀 어/타갈로그 - Philippine language/ Tagalog

See also

• Linguistics and language
• Countries