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802: 33: 872:(牙音 "molar sound") ㄱ is said to represent the back of the tongue bunched up to block the back of the mouth near the molars. Aspirate ㅋ is derived from this by the addition of a stroke which represents aspiration. The Chinese voiced/"muddy" ㄲ is created by doubling ㄱ. The doubled letters were only used for Chinese, as Korean had not yet developed its series of emphatic consonants. In the twentieth century they were revived for the Korean emphatics. 1687: 1634: 1091: 705: 1620:. When transcribing Chinese, these had been used for the 'departing' (去聲) and 'rising' (上聲) tones, respectively. (The 'even' tone (平聲) was not marked. The 'entering' (入聲) "tone", which was not a tone at all, was indicated by its final stop consonant.) Although the pitch and length distinctions are still made in speech by many Koreans, the diacritics are obsolete. 182: 2146:
in various Chinese dialects, and was composed of ㅁ plus ㅇ. In ʼPhags-pa, a loop under a letter, ꡧ, represented after vowels, and Ledyard proposes this rather than the null symbol was the source of the loop at the bottom, so that the two components of ㅱ reflected its two pronunciations just as
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who could afford the education. The vast majority of Koreans were illiterate. The Korean alphabet, on the other hand, was designed so that even a commoner with little education could learn to read and write: "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn
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It should be clear to any reader that in the total picture, that role was quite limited ... Nothing would disturb me more, after this study is published, than to discover in a work on the history of writing a statement like the following: "According to recent investigations, the Korean alphabet was
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languages, though the letters specific to Chinese are now obsolete. Each block consists of at least one consonant letter and one vowel letter. When promulgated, the blocks reflected the morphology of Korean, but for most of the fifteenth century they were organized into syllables. In the twentieth
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played a major role. Besides the grouping of letters into syllables, in functional imitation of Chinese characters, Ledyard argues that it was Chinese phonology, not Indic, that determined which five consonants were basic, and were therefore to be retained from ʼPhags-pa. These included the
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There were ʼPhags-pa manuscripts in the Korean palace library from the Yuan Dynasty government, including some in the seal-script form, and several of Sejong's ministers knew the script well. If this was the case, Sejong's evasion on the Mongol connection can be understood in light of the
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and null ㅇ, reflecting its variable pronunciation. The Korean alphabet was designed not just to write Korean, but to accurately represent Chinese. Many Chinese words historically began with , but by Sejong's day this had been lost in many regions of China, and was silent when these words were
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The seven basic vowel letters were not adopted from an existing script. They were straight lines, dots, and lines with dots that appear to have been designed by Sejong or his ministers to represent the phonological principles of Korean. At least two parameters were used in their design,
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involved in their production. However, the Korean alphabet goes a step further, in that the shapes of the letters iconically represent the speech organs, so that all consonants of the same articulation are based on the same shape. As such, the Korean alphabet has been classified as a
1741:(phagspa) could offer some distant analogy for some of the consonants of the Korean alphabet. The linguist Gari Ledyard studied potential links between ʼPhags-pa and Hangul, however, and believed that the influence of ʼPhags-pa, if any, was very limited: 1837:. The topic of the recent Mongol domination of China, which had ended just 75 years earlier, was politically sensitive, and both the Chinese and Korean literati regarded the Mongols as barbarians with nothing to contribute to a civilized society. 1753:." An affine theory states that the consonants are derived from the shape of the speaker's lips and tongue during the pronunciation of the consonants (initially, at least), but this would appear somewhat to strain credulity. 1958:
The five adopted letters were graphically simplified, retaining the outline of the ʼPhags-pa letters but with a reduced number of strokes that recalled the shapes of the speech organs involved, as explained in the
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letters ꡂ , ꡊ , ꡎ , ꡛ , ꡙ , and their supposed Korean derivatives theorized by Ledyard: ㄱ , ㄷ , ㅂ , ㅈ , ㄹ , with strokes dropped from the Korean alphabet in grey. Note the lip on both ʼPhags-pa ꡊ and Korean ㄷ .
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century the morpho-syllabic tradition was revived. The blocks were traditionally written in vertical columns from top to bottom, although they are now commonly written in horizontal rows from left to right as well.
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The Chinese character for 'teeth' (in Classical Chinese specifically incisors), 齒, contains two pairs of ㅅ-shaped teeth, separated by a horizontal line so that both pairs resemble Korean ㅆ or ㅉ in a ㅁ-shaped
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have a vertical top stroke, the non-stops lack that stroke, and the aspirate stops have an additional stroke. There were a few additional irregular consonants, such as the coronal lateral/flap ㄹ , which the
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borrowed into Korean, so that only remained at the middle and end of Korean words. The expected shape of a velar nasal, the short vertical stroke (⃓) that would be left by removing the top stroke of ㄱ
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In the Hunminjeongeum ("The Proper Sounds for the Education of the People"), after which the alphabet itself was named, Sejong explained that he created the new script because the existing
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The Korean language of this period had vowel harmony to a greater extent than it does today. Vowels alternated in pairs according to their environment. Vowel harmony affected the
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may have been more conducive to the interlocking pattern of internal featural derivation of the alphabet (it had the top horizontal stroke common to most of the other basic
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Another letter composed of two elements to represent two regional pronunciations, now obsolete, was ㅱ, which transcribed the Chinese initial 微. This represented either
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explained was iconic of the dental ("tooth") sounds. Apparently there was no such remedy available within ʼPhags-pa to make the labial series completely regular.
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Although the dot and line were initially separate, as in ㆎ, they soon joined to ㅓ under the influence of calligraphy and the constraints of the writing brush.
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has traditionally been interpreted as "Old Seal Script", frustrating philologists, because the Korean alphabet bears no functional similarity to Chinese 篆字
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Ledyard, Gari K. (1997). "The International Linguistic Background of the Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People". In Young-Key Kim-Renaud (ed.).
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During the second half of the fifteenth century, the new Korean script was used primarily by women and the under-educated. It faced heavy opposition from
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If the ʼPhags-pa theory is valid, then the graphic base of Hangul consonants is part of the great family of alphabets that spread from the
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As a final piece of evidence, Ledyard notes that, with two exceptions, hangul letters have the simple geometric shapes expected of invention: ㄱ
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abolished the Hangul Ministry. The account of the design of the Korean alphabet was lost, and it would not return to common use until after
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installed, the ʼPhags-pa letters will be visible. However, they will display incorrectly, rotated −90° from their proper orientation.
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only explains as an altered outline of the tongue, and the velar nasal ㆁ . The irregularity of the labials has no explanation in the
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If your browser doesn't distinguish the two, the latter is a circle with a vertical stroke on top, like an upside-down ⚲ lollipop.
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These pages explain the shapes of the basic Korean consonants. Note the purely geometric shapes, as yet unaffected by calligraphy.
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to be the only legitimate writing system. Later kings also opposed it. In 1504, some commoners wrote posters in Hangul mocking
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as well. The seven vowel sounds of Korean thus fell into two harmonic groups of three vowels each, with the seventh vowel, ㅣ
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is that the entire labio-dental series of both ʼPhags-pa and the hangul, used to transcribe the Chinese initials 微非敷
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before the influence of the writing brush made them asymmetrical, these were purely geometric. The exceptions were ㄷ
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in the Indic languages and were not basic in the Indic tradition. The other two letters were the plain sibilant ꡛ
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It also had two pronunciations in Chinese, as a sibilant and as a nasal (approximately and ) and so, like ㅱ for
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A sixth letter, the null initial ㅇ, was invented by Sejong. The rest of the consonants were developed through
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Various fanciful speculations about the creation of hangul were put to rest by the 1940 discovery of the 1446
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reconstructed here, which match the iconicity of the Korean alphabet, do not fit the Chinese classification.
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dynasty, personally created Hangul and revealed it in 1443. Afterward, King Sejong wrote the preface to the
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Seal Script". The identity of this script has long been puzzling. The primary meaning of the character 古
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in the Korean alphabet. Note that these glosses, but not the Korean text, use the null symbol ㅇ at the
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have such composite forms, though in the case of ʼPhags-pa these are all based on the letter ꡜ
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It is postulated that the Koreans adopted five core consonant letters from ʼPhags-pa, namely ㄱ
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The inscription on a statue of King Sejong, illustrating the original forms of the letters. It reads
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The Korean language reform of 1446: the origin, background, and Early History of the Korean Alphabet
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in the fifteenth century, as they do today, whereas the fifteenth-century sound values of ㅣㅓㅏ
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of a syllable when there is no final consonant, a convention found only in this one document.
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to indicate clauses and sentences, so that the Korean alphabet now transcribes Korean at the
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There was presumably a third parameter in designing the vowel letters, not mentioned in the
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Although several of the basic concepts of the Korean alphabet may have been inherited from
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The palatals were obsolete by Sejong's day, and not distinguished in the Korean alphabet.
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The Chinese character for 'mouth', 口, is essentially identical in shape to the Korean ㅁ.
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with Examples". This document explains the design of the consonant letters according to
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but may be a remnant of the graphic origin of the basic letter shapes in the imperial
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account, it would be expected to have a horizontal top stroke similar to those of ㄱ
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Korean has a simple tone system often characterized by the poorly defined term "
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states that the shapes of the strokes were chosen to represent the Confucian 三才
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to write detailed examples and explanations. The head of the Hall of Worthies,
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the top stroke or strokes of the basic letters. (No letter was derived from ㄹ
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had a lip protruding from the upper left corner, just as ʼPhags-pa ꡊ
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speech organ explanation of the Korean letter shapes." (Ledyard 1997:57)
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did. The reason for suspecting that this derives from ʼPhags-pa ꡧ
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through the ʼPhags-pa script, such as the relationships among the
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vowels, and for this reason was called "mediating". The letters for the
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in the first two syllables, the asymmetrical lip at the top-left of the
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Of these seven vowel sounds, three could not be iotized (preceded by a
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also for Chinese, from variants of the basic letter plus a circle.
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among its basic consonants, they are based on the labial series ㅁ
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of the language, and Korean phonology described it in terms of
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The Korean consonant series and the iconicity of their shapes
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in Ledyard's account, it is not clear how one would derive ㅂ
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in the third, and the distinction between initial and final
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Native script of Korea, created in the mid fifteenth century
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Ledyard acknowledges that it is irregular for the Korean ㅈ
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derivation from these six, essentially as described in the
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explains the design of the consonantal letters in terms of
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now obsolete, has no explanation in either Ledyard or the
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sound). These three were written with a single stroke: ㅡ
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are believed to have disagreed with this classification.
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The 36 Chinese initials and their Korean transcriptions
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to represent this system, a single tick, as in 성〮, for
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was harmonically neutral and could coexist with either
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Note the dots on the vowels, the geometric symmetry of
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It was created in the mid fifteenth century by 1975:and left room for an added stroke to derive the 2106:However, Ledyard's explanation of the letter ㆁ 2071:In order to maintain the Chinese convention of 1743: 1363:; and 人 man, represented with an upright line, 99:. Initially denounced by the educated class as 2961:The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure 2617:, p. 27a, translation from Ledyard (1998:258). 2466:The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure 1963:For example, the box inside ʼPhags-pa ꡂ 1248:("shallow") vowels, the suffixes needed to be 695:Consonant letters as outlines of speech organs 2232:wasn't a simple half square, but even in the 1797:also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 1375:(which alternate under vowel harmony), yin ㅜ 1351:concept, represented with a dot for the sun, 145:has been introduced, to separate words, with 8: 2901:was the source in Brāhmī of both the letter 2807:to have been derived from ʼPhags-pa ꡛ 2458: 2456: 2185:An additional letter, the 'semi-sibilant' ㅿ 110: 104: 74: 37: 2167:), while in hangul, which does not have an 2131:was added to the null symbol ㅇ to create ㆁ 2114:account; he sees it as a fusion of velar ㄱ 1821:", that is, a formal variant of the Mongol 1533:, respectively (and reconstruct obsolete ㆍ 245:Except for the obsolete palatal stops, all 2985:蒙古字韻 "Mongolian Letters arranged by Rhyme" 2469:. University of Hawaii Press. p. 15. 2048:is not analogous to the other stops: If ㅂ 1400: 1128: 2963:. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2637: 2635: 2572: 2570: 1674:Learn how and when to remove this message 789:Learn how and when to remove this message 2765:, Paris, 1820, p. 82. "Enfin l'alphabet 2246: 874: 251: 2722: 2720: 2509:. National Institute of Korean Language 2452: 2424:the Semitic-model hypothesis for Brahmi 1359:concept, represented with a flat line, 2710: 2708: 2625: 2623: 2585:. The Korea Foundation. Archived from 669:scholars educated in Chinese, notably 130:blocks, and was designed for both the 2887:This connection assumes that Aramaic 2790:Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, 2542: 2540: 2538: 2536: 1876:) taken as the starting point by the 1616:, and a double tick, as in 성〯, for a 1284:dots, if present, were placed in the 7: 1711:used for Chinese, from the letter ꡜ 1656:adding citations to reliable sources 1506:as the base of "open" (unrounded) ㅓ 1244:vowels; conversely, if the root had 727:adding citations to reliable sources 2858:As can be seen in the photo of the 1813:was a veiled reference to the 蒙古篆字 1580:A resemblance of ʼPhags-pa ꡠ 827:and the vowel letters according to 2952:The Korean Language Reform of 1446 1703:) Derivation of ʼPhags-pa ꡤ 25: 2905:and the similar-shaped diacritic 2747:, analogous to ʼPhags-pa ꡰ 1490:as the graphic base of "closed" ( 1288:directions of down and left. The 2553:Cultural Heritage Administration 2248:Cognates of core hangul letters 1809:". From palace records that 古篆字 1632: 968:口形 outline of the mouth (lips) 703: 242:them in the space of ten days." 2922:Fischer, Stephen Roger (2004). 1643:needs additional citations for 1256:falling outside this system. ㅣ 714:needs additional citations for 2463:Kim-Renaud, Young-Key (1997). 2216:a chevron, ㅇ a circle. In the 2208:was the corner of a square, ㅁ 2091:, parallel the account in the 1600:Diacritics for suprasegmentals 1086:Iconic design of vowel letters 1008:喉形 outline of the open throat 868:For example, the shape of the 75: 1: 2862:at the top of the article, ㅌ 2672:. Stanford University Press. 1967:is not found in the Korean ㄱ 1608:". Hangul originally had two 1486:namely choosing horizontal ㅡ 2527: 1402:Possible vowel articulation 1308:directions of up and right. 1011: 991: 971: 951: 931: 911: 904:Iconicity, according to the 2792:The World's Writing Systems 2548:"Hunminjeongeum Manuscript" 1833:political situation in the 1514:The horizontal letters ㅡㅜㅗ 3021: 2664:Sampson, Geoffrey (1990). 1331:is now obsolete except in 1027: 1007: 987: 967: 947: 927: 79:) is the native script of 2954:. Seoul: Shingu munhwasa. 2950:Ledyard, Gari K. (1998). 2870:also had this lip, but ㄹ 2040:by adding something to ㅁ 2032:by removing the top of ㅂ 1983:. But in contrast to the 1179: 1028:(lip sounds plus circle) 988:齒形 outline of an incisor 641: 619: 580: 541: 452: 368: 287: 257: 204:, the fourth king of the 122:The Korean alphabet is a 119:in the mid-20th century. 111: 105: 38: 2501: 2147:the two components of ㆁ 1823:ʼPhags-pa alphabet 1793:However the character 古 1130:Vowel iconicity per the 1076:ʼPhags-pa alphabet 807:Hunmin jeong-eum haerye. 2609:Hunmin jeong-eum haerye 2052:were derived as in the 1987:account, the non-stops 1760:Hunmin jeong-eum haerye 1013:輕脣音 "light lip sounds" 907:Hunmin jeong-eum haerye 831:principles such as the 816:Hunmin jeong-eum haerye 187:Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae 2240:did, and as Tibetan ད 1769:articulatory phonetics 1755: 1728: 1624:ʼPhags-pa theory 1126: 1055:labiodental consonants 825:articulatory phonetics 810: 198: 63: 3005:15th century in Korea 2726:If you have the font 1689: 1304:with the dots in the 1292:vowel letters were ㆍ 1093: 804: 184: 103:(vernacular writing; 35: 2925:A History of Writing 2891:which was used as a 1652:improve this article 973:齒音 "incisor sounds" 819:"Explanation of the 723:improve this article 2811:rather than from ꡒ 2408:Phoenician alphabet 2249: 1977:aspirated consonant 1557:, the dot the sole 1403: 1134: 1048:guttural consonants 1040:bilabial consonants 993:喉音 "throat sounds" 933:舌音 "tongue sounds" 881:Articulatory class 877: 254: 2577:Paik, Syeung-gil. 2247: 1973:consonant clusters 1729: 1401: 1129: 1127: 1036:coronal consonants 913:牙音 "molar sounds" 875: 811: 738:"Origin of Hangul" 500:Palatal/Retroflex 252: 231:Chinese characters 199: 64: 2741:Etruscan alphabet 2739:Note that in the 2679:978-0-8047-1756-4 2404: 2403: 2244:did before that. 2218:Hunmin Jeong-eum, 2212:a full square, ㅅ 2110:differs from the 1937:voiced consonants 1901:Chinese phonology 1779:is "old", so 古篆字 1684: 1683: 1676: 1480: 1479: 1365:⟨ㅣ⟩ 1361:⟨ㅡ⟩ 1353:⟨ㆍ⟩ 1347:" of 天 heaven, a 1210: 1209: 1032: 1031: 859:featural alphabet 799: 798: 791: 773: 663: 662: 229:system, based on 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Index

Origin of hangul

Hangul
Korean
Korea
King Sejong
logographic
Sino-Korean
Hanja
Japan
featural alphabet
morpho-syllabic
Korean
Chinese
Spacing
punctuation
levels
feature
segment
suprasegmental
tone
vowel length

glossed
Sejong the Great
Joseon
Hunminjeongeum
Hall of Worthies
Jeong In-ji
idu

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