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Koreanic

/kəɹiːˈænɪk/

Koreanic proper noun: a language family spoken primarily in the Korean Peninsula, consisting of Korean proper and Jeju together with extinct ancient relatives.

Proper noun

Koreanic

  1. A language family spoken primarily in the Korean Peninsula, consisting of Korean proper and Jeju together with extinct ancient relatives.

Adjective

Koreanic (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to or dealing with the languages originally spoken in the Korean Peninsula.

Origin of Koreanic

From Korean + -ic.

Questions about Koreanic

What does Koreanic mean?
Koreanic means a language family spoken primarily in the Korean Peninsula, consisting of Korean proper and Jeju together with extinct ancient relatives.
What part of speech is Koreanic?
Koreanic can be a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Koreanic?
Koreanic is pronounced /kəɹiːˈænɪk/.

Words near Koreanic in the dictionary

  1. Korean stewartias
  2. Korean studies
  3. Korean War
  4. Korean Wave
  5. Korean-style short ribs
  6. Koreanic
  7. Koreanistics
  8. Koreanization
  9. Koreanizations
  10. Koreanize
  11. Koreanized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Koreanic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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