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Book: Writing Systems

Chapter: A featural system: Korean Hangul

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22715

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This chapter covers the phonographic script, nowadays known as Hangul, which was created in Korea during the 15th century. Now consisting of 24 (from an original 28) letters, these have an internal structure correlated with the phonetic-feature composition of the phonemes a feature not unlike Pitman's shorthand and unline any other script used as the ordinary writing system of a society.

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