Editing Korea (section)

===Language===
{{Main|Korean language|Korean Sign Language}}
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[[File:Hunmin jeong-eum.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Hunminjeongeum]]'', afterwards called [[Hangul]].]]
[[Korean language|Korean]] is the official language of both North and South Korea, and (along with Mandarin) of [[Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture]] in [[Jilin Province]], [[China]]. Worldwide, there are up to 80 million speakers of the Korean language. South Korea has around 50 million speakers while North Korea around 25 million. Other large groups of Korean speakers through [[Korean diaspora]] are found in [[People's Republic of China|China]], the [[United States]], [[Japan]], former [[Soviet Union]] and elsewhere.

Modern Korean is written almost exclusively in the script of the [[Hangul|Korean alphabet]] (known as Hangul in South Korea and Chosungul in China and North Korea), which was invented in the 15th century. Korean is sometimes written with the addition of some Chinese characters called Hanja; however, this is only occasionally seen nowadays.