The core of the Korean vocabulary is made up of native Korean words. More than 50% of the vocabulary, however, isespecially madescholarly upterminology, consists of [[Sino-Korean]] words, which are words borrowed from [[Chinese language|Chinese]]. To a much lesser extent, words have also been borrowed fromLike [[MongolianJapanese language|MongolianJapanese]], [[SanskritKorean language|Sanskrit]],has andtwo othernumber languages.systems In— modernone times,native manyand words have also beenone borrowed from [[Europeanthe languagesChinese |Western languages]] such as [[German language|German]] and, more recently, [[English language|English]]—.
To a much lesser extent, words have also been borrowed from [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]], and other languages. In modern times, some words have also been borrowed from [[Japanese]], [[European languages |Western languages]] such as [[German language|German]] and, more recently, [[English language|English]].
The numbers are a good example of borrowing. Like [[Japanese language|Japanese]], Korean has two number systems — one native and one borrowed from the Chinese — so Korean, Chinese and Japanese all appear to have similar words for numbers.
