Where does modern Korean descend from?
Middle Korean
And where does that descend from?
Old Korean
What do linguists classify Korean as?
a language isolate
What is the official and national language of both Koreas?
Korean
What is another name for The Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
North Korea
And what is South Korea?
the Republic of Korea
About how many people speak Korean worldwide?
80 million
What is William George Aston?
a linguist
And Samuel Martin?
a linguist
Do we know whether Korean and Japanese are related?
no
What is Korean in its morphology?
agglutinative
Where is it one of the two official languages?
the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
Where is the Jeju language spoken?
the Jeju Province
What is discredited in academic research?
The idea that Korean belongs to the controversial Altaic language family
And what is there still debate about?
a relation to Dravidian languages
What is another name for the language spoken in Prehistoric Korea?
Proto-Korean
Why is its nature debated?
Korean genetic origins are controversial
What form the Koreanic family?
Korean and its extinct relatives
What did Roy Andrew Miller suggest?
the inclusion of Koreanic and Japonic languages in the purported Altaic family
Was he alone in suggesting that?
no