Wie unterschiedlich sind die nordkoreanischen und südkoreanischen Sprachen?

Not much. They just have a distinct accent and use different terminologies, usually for loanwords. For example 스마트폰 is 손전화기 in NK.

It’s similar and different at the same time. I mean you get a hang of what they’re trying to say, but many words will throw you off. But then when you see the translation, you’d think „oh- I see what you did there.“ So, yeah. similar and different.

The South and the North are one nation, a single ethnic group that speaks the same language and shares the same genes.

However, just as there are regional dialects within our own country, the languages ​​of the South and the North differ only to that extent, and naturally, there are no problems with communication.

Due to the long period of separation, there are many instances where words are unfamiliar to each other, but there is absolutely no problem in understanding the overall meaning.

I have a North Korean tablet computer, and some of the terms are hard to figure out. For instance ,다시시작 is 제기동.

I used to write Korean lessons for a language website and actually wrote an article about this. The biggest difference is Konglish. They don’t have that, and it’s a surprisingly high number of words in Korean these days.

I haven’t spoken Korean in years but I used to be quite proficient, and the only thing I see different is the 이유 that someone else also mentioned. 

The biggest difference in terms of grammer is the application of the [„initial sound rule“](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_sound_rule) (두음법칙/頭音法則).

The rule is a linguistic phenomenon in which certain phonemes tend to avoid appearing at the beginning of a word.

In Korean, this tendency was observed early on from the pre-modern Korean period (before the 18th century). There was a reluctance to place ㄹ r and ㄴ n sounds in Sino-Korean vocabulary at the beginning of words. In 1933, this phenomenon was formally codified as a rule in the “Unified Hangul Orthography.”

Today, South Korea still reflects this rule in its orthography, whereas North Korea does not recognize the phenomenon itself and therefore does not apply it in spelling.

I’d say that „South Korean“ isn’t a monolithic singular dialect; it’s as diverse as the various slangs in British English.

North Korean is akin to something like American English; it’ll have a lot of local slangs as well, and American English dialects are heavily influenced by Spanish (just as North Korean is influenced by Russian or Chinese).

Generally mutually intelligible, particularly if not using slang or industry jargon.

Enough differences in vocabulary (English loan words in South Korean dialects) and differences in accents that both can be mutually difficult to understand each other. Many North Korean defectors in South Korea say their biggest problems (aside from cultural differences) are communication issues. Their North Korean accents are also immediately noticeable and flag them as different people.

Since it largely involves loanwords, you can get a bit of a feel by taking a look at something written in [Anglish](https://theanglishtimes.com/happenings.html), a type of English that removes all the loanwords and replaces them with native English coinings.

As you read it you can see how it feels both familiar and foreign at the same time. It’s pretty close to 100% readable but you’d never mistake it for your own language.

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