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Revision as of 19:00, March 9, 2008
Korean (Hangugeo) is a languse spoken by all the people in Korea and a few million other people all over the world, especially in the United States, China, and the former USSR.
Korean has no known language that it is related to, possibly except Japanese. It is often classified as an Altaic language, because of it being an agglutinative language.
It is written in the Hangul alphabet, which was created by King Sejong in the 15th century to increase literacy. However, hangul wasn't formally adopted until the early 20th century. Sometimes, Korean uses Chinese characters (hanja), which are most commonly used in personal names and historical texts.