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Originally, Korean was a spoken language, as written records were maintained in Classical Chinese, which is not mutually intelligible with either the historical or modern Korean languages, even in its spoken form.
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Modern Hangul uses 24 basic letters and 27 complex letters. Modern Korean is written in Hangul, a system developed in the 15th century for that purpose. The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in Manchuria. Modern linguists generally classify Korean as a language isolate, and its connection to languages such as Japanese is unclear however, it does have a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself and the Jeju language (spoken in the Jeju Province) form the Koreanic language family. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Russia and Central Asia. It is a recognised minority language in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin Province, China. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (originally Korea), with different standardized official forms used in each country. Korean ( South Korean: 한국어, hangugeo North Korean: 조선말, chosŏnmal) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people, mainly Korean, as of 2020.