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Similarities Between Korean and Chinese

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In this video, we compare some of the common words between Korean and Chinese (Mandarin) with Yelin, representing Korean, and Don, as the Chinese speaker.

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The Korean language (한국어/韓國語 조선말/朝鮮말) is classified as a Koreanic language and considered a language isolate. It is the official and national language of North Korea and South Korea, and also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin province in China. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Russia, and Central Asia. Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which descends from Old Korean, which descends from the ProtoKoreanic language.

Modern Korean is written in the Korean script, which is referred to as 한글 (Hangul) in South Korea, and 조선글 (Choson'gul) in North Korea. This writing system was developed in the 15th century and became the primary script to write the language in the 20th century.

Chinese ( 中文 / 汉语 / 漢語 ) is a term for a group of languages which form the Sinitic branch of the SinoTibetan languages family. These languages include Mandarin ( 官話 / 官话 ), Min ( 閩語 / 闽语 ), Wu (吳語 / 吴语), Yue / Cantonese (粵語 / 粤语 / 廣東話 / 广东话), Jin (晋语 / 晉語 / 晋方言 / 晉方言), Gan (贛語 / 赣语), Hakka (客家話), Xiang (湘語 / 湘语), Huizhou / Hui (徽州話 / 徽州话), Pinghua (平話 / 平话), and others.

Mandarin Chinese is primarily spoken in northern and southwestern China, including the Beijing dialect which forms the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Mandarin speakers extend in large geographical area from Yunnan to Xinjiang to Heilongjiang. Mandarin has official status in China, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Min Chinese is mainly spoken in the Fujian province in southeast China. It is also spoken in the Leizhou Peninsula, in the southernmost part of Guangdong province in South China, and Hainan (southernmost province of), and Chaoshan / Teoswa, the east of Guangdong, in addition to Zhongshan, Wenzhou, the Zhoushan archipelago, Taiwan, and Singapore. The name is derived from the Min River in Fujian, which is also the abbreviated name of Fujian Province. The most popular variety of Min outside of mainland China is Hokkien.

Wu Chinese is primarily spoken in in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, and in the Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River.

Yu Chinese, is often referred to as Cantonese, although Cantonese is term for the Yu dialect spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Wuzhou (Ngchow), Hong Kong and Macau.

Jin is the term for the Chinese varieties spoken in the Shanxi province of China, as well as central Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.

Gan Chinese is primarily spoken in central and northern Jiangxi, eastern Hunan, eastern Hubei, southern Anhui, northwest Fujian.

Hakka Chinese is spoken in Taiwan, and Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan in mainland China. In addition, it is spoken in Hong Kong, and by some people in Malaysia, Vietnam.

Xiang Chinese, also referred to as Hsiang or Hunanese, is primarily spoken in the Hunan province, as well as Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.

Huizhou Chinese is primarily spoken in and within the vicinity of the historical region of Huizhou in the Anhui province, and in Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Pinghua Chinese is mainly spoken in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, and to a lesser extent in the Hunan province.

Bu videoda Korece ve Çince (Mandarin) arasındaki ortak kelimelerden bazılarını gösteriyoruz.

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이 비디오에서는 한국어와 중국어(북경어) 사이의 일반적인 단어 중 일부를 보여줍니다.

在本视频中我们展示了韩语和汉语普通话之间的一些常见单词

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