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Kashmiri, popularly known as Koshur, is an Indo-Aryan language. Even the opponents of this linguistic classification of this language, grouped it with Dardi, Shrinya, Khowar dialects, which are spoken in the areas adjacent to the valley in its north and north-west. Language historians and linguists have often, however, concurred on the theory that the above-mentioned dialects fall in the category of languages that bear resemblance to the Indo-Aryan as well as to the Indo-Iranian languages

The Korean language is classified as a member of the Ural-Altaic family (other members of this family include the Mongolian, Finnish, and Hungarian languages.) Until the early 1400s, most documents were written in classical Chinese characters (known in Korean as Hanja). As the idiographs are difficult to learn, only the educated people could read and write. King Sejong, the 4th ruler of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), set up a special committee of scholars in 1443 to create a new writing system specifically suited to the Korean language.

The result was Hangul (meaning 'the one script'). It originally contained 28 symbols, although 4 have dropped out of use. The alphabet has 10 vowels and 14 consonants. The consonants represent the simplified outlines of the parts of the mouth and tongue used to pronounce them. The vowels are associated with elements of the philosophy of the Book of Changes.

Kabardian (Circassian) language - one of the Caucasian languages (Abkhaz-Adyge group). Spoken in the Kabardian-Balkar and Karachay-Circassian republics, in the city of Mozdok and its surroundings in the Stavropol region, in a number of villages of the Krasnodar region and the Republic of Adygea. National language of the Kabardians and the Circassians. The number of the Kabardians in Russia is 386,1 thousand. 97,6 % of them regard Kabardian as their mother tongue, 2,2 % Russian. The number of the Circassians is 50,7 thousand (91,5 % regard Kabardian-Circassian as their mother tongue, 5,2 % Russian).

Kalmyk language - one of the Mongolian languages. Spoken in the Republic of Kalmykia, in the Astrakhan, Rostov, Stavropol regions and in Kyrgyzstan. The number of the Kalmyks in Russia is 165,8 thousand. 93,1 % of them regard Kalmyk as their mother tongue, 6,8 % Russian.

During 1648-1924 the Kalmyks used a variant of the Old Mongolian writing system, creating a rich literature. The Cyrillic alphabet was introduced in 1924, the Latin alphabet was used in 1931-38, and since 1938 the written language has been based on the Cyrillic alphabet.

Thank you very much for your interest in learning a unique Indian Language which like Greek is both a classical and a modern language. We welcome you to the Kannada Online Language teaching programme. It is needless to say that Kannada has a long recorded history and it is one of the major Dravidian languages. Though Kannada is primarily spoken in Karnataka which is in the Southern part of India, during the long period of its history, the Kannadigas have moved to several parts of the world. Considerable number of Kannadigas are settled down in various parts of the world along with other diasporic Indians. As we had received lot of queries from these diasporic Kannadigas and other interested persons who wanted to learn Kannada language and know about Kannada Culture, Literature and History, we thought this demand could be met by developing a comprehensive second foreign language online learning package which could encompass with in it all the required teaching and learning components. Kannada online programme is the result of this thought.

Welcome to the page for Kannada, featuring books, courses, and software to help you learn Kannada! Kannada is a language of India that is spoken by over 45 million people, and predominantly spoken in the Karnataka region and also in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil, Nadu, and Maharashtra. If you have any questions or can't find what you need, please

Our institute is under direct control of the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development and takes part in the education of overseas Koreans all over the world in Korean language, history, and culture. Also, it is a governmental organization, managed as an executive agency, which contributes to international educational exchanges and the promotion of mutual cooperation through these exchanges.
The institute operates the Korean language study site, KOSNET, for people who want to learn Korean. KOSNET is the most advanced Korean language study system on the Internet and is provided in 3 different languages, English, Japanese, and Chinese. The system, which consists of a total of 6 stages, is designed to teach Korean easily from the beginning. We feel proud that it is the best online Korean language study system to extend a learner's Korean language ability through interactive learning.

This is a very good idea, because the Korean Language is the best way to know and enjoy this beautiful country, its people, traditions, and culture. LearnKoreanLanguage.com is your bridge to the Korean language, culture, and traditions. Learn Korean Language will help you to understand the basics of Korean - if you decide you like our lessons, check out Learn Korean Now, our member-based site that offers even better lessons! Those lessons are much more detailed and in-depth, but also contain audio, quizzes, and everything else needed to learn Korean.

Korean is spoken in both North and South Korea by about 65 million people. There are also about 2 million speakers in China, 700,000 in Japan, and 600,000 in the United States.
Korean's linguistic affiliation is uncertain, though in its grammatical structure it is most similar to Japanese. It is certainly not related to Chinese, although it has borrowed many Chinese words and has used the Chinese characters, together with the Korean alphabet, for many centuries. This latter practice was abolished in North Korea after World War II and is gradually being phased out in South Korea. In the fourth line of the poem above the proper nouns Yongbyon and Yag San appear with the Chinese characters following in parentheses.

We are an independent online korean learning resource site, offering various free learning tools for speaking, reading and writing we also provide a unique online community forum featuring teachers to help you learn as you go.
Learn Korean has developed from a small language site, to one of the largest learning website online.

We will teach you in gradual phases, and will also provide you with a forum, where you can ask each other, as well as our teachers for help. We will also recommend a wide variety of online language learning tools, in the event that you wish to take your learning further, and will give you guidance in order to allow you to achieve this aim. We encourage all students to learn at their own pace, since their learning is dependent on their abilities

This site was originally designed to help the students taking Korean classes with Dr. Oh, when he was teaching at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. However, as it is offered over the Web, anyone who is interested in learning Korean or knowing about Korea receives a very warm welcome.

Dr. Oh (Ph. D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is now teaching Korean at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University. ASU has recently launched a Korean Studies program, which was established by the late Dr. John Koo and is being developed by Dr. Hyaeweol Choi. ASU is supporting the Korean Studies program very actively and with much enthusiasm.

Kabardian language is closely related to the Adyghe language, both members of the Northwest Caucasian language family, mainly spoken in Kabardino-Balkar Republic and Karachay-Cherkess Republic of Russia

Kalenjinis a cluster of closely related dialects spoken in Western Kenya and the Rift Valley by about 12% of Kenya's population. The present name for the dialect cluster gained prominense in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, when several Nandi-speaking peoples united to assume the common name 'Kalenjin', a Nandi expression meaning I say. Due to this effort, the peoples were transformed into a major ethnic group in Kenya. The adoption of the name Kalenjin also involved a standardization of the different dialects.

Kalmyk is the language of the Kalmyks, spoken in Kalmykia, Western China and Western Mongolia. There are about 160,000 Kalmyk speakers in each country.

Kamchadal, is a language belonging to the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family traditionally spoken in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Fewer than a hundred native speakers, mostly elderly, in a few settlements in the southwest of Koryak Autonomous Okrug, remained in 1993. The 2002 Census counted 3,180 ethnic Itelmen, virtually all of which are now monolingual in Russian. However, there are attempts to revive the language, and it is being taught in a number of schools in the region.

Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of southern India and one of the oldest languages in India. It is the 29th most spoken language in the world, with speakers of its various dialects numbering roughly 64 million, of which 55 million use it as their first language. It is the state language of Karnataka, one of the four southern states in India. It is also one of the official languages of the Republic of India. It is written using the Kannada script.

Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by approximately 4 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan. Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years.

Kashmiri is a Dardic language spoken primarily in the valley of Kashmir, a region situated wholly in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir state. It has about 4,611,000 speakers. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the 23 officially recognised languages of India.

Khanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, as well as in Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia. According to the 1994 Salminen and 1994 Janhunen study, there were 12,000 Khanty-speaking people in Russia. The Khanty and Mansi languages are the Ob Ugric members of the Finno-Ugric languages.

Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India. Khasi is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and is distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is found in east-central India.

Kikuyu,is a language in the Central Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily by the Kĩkũyũ people of Kenya. Numbering about 6 million, they are the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Gikuyu is spoken in the area between Nyeri and Nairobi. Gikuyu is one of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup of the Bantu languages that stretches from Kenya to Tanzania.

Kinyarwanda is the chief spoken language in Rwanda. It is also spoken in the east of D.R. Congo and in the south of Uganda. Kinyarwanda is a tonal language of the Bantu language family. Kinyarwanda is closely related to Kirundi spoken in the neighboring country, Burundi and to Giha of western Tanzania.

Kirundi is a Bantu language spoken by some 6 million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa, as well as in Uganda. 84% of the speakers are Hutu, 15% are Tutsi and 1% are Twa.

Kituba is a widely used lingua franca in Central Africa. It is based on Kikongo, a family of closely related Bantoid languages.It is an official language in Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa.

Komi language, also known as Zyrian, or Komi-Zyrian, is a Uralic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi is one of the two members of the Permic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric branch. The other Permic language is Udmurt, to which Komi is closely related.

Kongo is the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo people living in the tropical forests of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo and Angola. It was the base for Kituba, a Bantu creole and lingua franca throughout much of western central Africa

Korean is the official language of both North and South Korea. The language is also one of the two official languages in neighbouring Yanbian, China. Worldwide, there are around 80 million Korean speakers, including large groups in the former Soviet Union, China, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and more recently, South Africa and the Philippines.

Krio is a creole language native to the Krios, a community of about 100,000 descendants of freed slaves living in Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown. It is also spoken as a lingua franca, or second language, by about 4 million Sierra Leoneans of other ethnic groups, and by thousands of Krio descendants living in other parts of West Africa.

Kumyk is a Turkic language, spoken by about 200 thousand speakers in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation.

Kurdish language is an Iranian language spoken in the region called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.Kurdish is an official language in Iraq while it is banned in Syria where it is forbidden to publish material in Kurdish.

Kyrgyz or Kirghiz is an Eastern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. It is most closely related to Altay, and more distantly so to Kazakh.