Where does “외국어” come from?

외국어 (Korean) comes from Chinese 語.

외국어 (Korean): foreign language

Definitions

  1. foreign language

Ancestry of “외국어”, step by step

외국어 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 語

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese語—

via Chinese 外國

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese外國foreign country
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