About Korean Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Korean language is the official language of North and South Korea. Around 48 million speakers live in South Korea while the other 24 million reside in North Korea. There are around 2 million speakers of the Korean language in China while 1 million are in the United States. The dialect of Korean is different in both North and South Korea. Even the spellings, alphabets, and vocabulary choices are different. The writing system features vernacular script and is now known as Hangul. There are two different types of vowels that include y or w. Some front vowels are written as e = [e], and ae = [ε] or [æ]. However, some of them are originally diphthongs. The Korean language is deeply influenced by Chinese but even then, it is completely different from it.
About Tajik Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Tajik is a form of Persian that is spoken in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Kazakhstan. The total number of Tajik speakers is 8 million that including 6.3 million in Tajikistan itself. You will be surprised to know that the Persian language in Tajikistan was renamed Tajik by Stalin in 1932. This was done to differentiate Persian speakers in Iran and Central Asia. Before 1928 Tajik was written in Perso-Arabic script. However, from 1928 to 1940 it was modified with the Cyrillic alphabet. There were a lot of people who wanted to switch it to the Latin alphabet. The Tajik dialects are separated into northern, central, southern, and Southeastern dialects. Most of the politicians and other officials usually make their speeches in the Kulob dialect. There is a total of six vowels in this language.
