Hangul - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HangulThe Korean alphabet, known as Hangul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is a writing system for the Korean language created by King Sejong the Great in 1443. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically ...
Hangul - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HangulKoreans primarily wrote using Classical Chinese alongside native phonetic writing systems that predate Hangul by hundreds of years, including Idu script, Hyangchal, Gugyeoland Gakpil. However, many lower class Koreans were illiterate due to fundamental differences between the Korean and Chinese languages, and the large number of Chinese characters. To promote literacy …
Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_hangulVarious fanciful speculations about the creation of hangul were put to rest by the 1940 discovery of the 1446 Hunmin jeong-eum haerye "Explanation of the Hunmin Jeong-eum with Examples". This document explains the design of the consonant letters according to articulatory phonetics and the vowel letters according to Confucian principles such as the yin and yang of vowel harmony(se…
Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Origin_of_hangulThe Korean alphabet (Hangul, 한글) is the native script of Korea, created in the mid fifteenth century by King Sejong, as both a complement and an alternative to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja. Initially denounced by the educated class as eonmun (vernacular writing; 언문, 諺文 ), it only became the primary Korean script following independence from Japan in the mid-20th century.