ABSTRACT
Korean is a language with approximately 78 million speakers which include 48 million in South Korea, 24 million in North Korea and nearly 6 million outside of Korea – mainly in China, the USA, Japan and central Asia (the former USSR). Korean is relatively homogeneous, with minor geographically based dialectal differences. The post-1945 division between North and South Korea and their different language policies have made the two Koreas linguistically divergent. The data used in this book represents the standard Seoul speech in the Central dialectal zone.
