Korean belongs to the Koreanic language family. Modern Korean language descends from Old Korean. In the first century BC, Chinese characters arrived in Korea and were adapted. As a result, the pronunciation of many Korean words sounds indeed familiar to the Chinese words. However, modern Korean has a different structure than Chinese. In the fifteenth century, Sejong the Great invented Hangul, which spells out the pronunciation of each character so that more Korean people could understand and read it. Nowadays, Chinese characters are more used in official and important situations instead of daily life in Korea.
Languages change based on its users. For example, in modern society, as people enter the Internet and start typing, more expressions occur for abbreviations. For Korean, many people like to combine the first character of each word in a long phrase to represent it. This phenomenon started online, but more people start to use popular abbreviations in their daily life too. According to the reading, linguists track the words in a target language and use a computer to analyze the data. They also look at the geographical data for each language to obtain the most possible analysis.
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