Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
A featural system: Korean Hangul
Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson [+]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).
Description
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.