consider it to be in the controversial Altaic language family. [ 3 ] The Korean language is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax . Contents 1 Names 2 Classification 3 History 4 Geographic distribution 4.1 Official status 5 Dialects 6 Sounds 6.1 Consonants 6.2 Vowels 6.3 Allophones 6.4