How many people speak Korean worldwide?
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How many people speak Korean worldwide?
Imagine you're at a global conference and you want to know how many people can understand Korean.
Think of languages like a tree with many branches. Korean is one of those branches. But it's tricky because Korean has many dialects, like Mandarin or Italian, which also have many branches.
Example
If Mandarin has 900 million speakers and Italian has 65 million, Korean's number can be estimated similarly.
Remember this
The estimated number of native Korean speakers in 2023 is around 85 million.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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