Inventing an alphabet – 삼성 – Sam-sung

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My slides for the talk Inventing an Alphabet I presented at IraCon 2016

On Github pkqk / hangul-talk

Inventing an alphabet

by @pkqk

Latin alphabet

Won

One

Through

Tough

한글

Hangul

  • Commissioned by Sejong the Great (세종) in 1443
  • Each box of shapes represents a syllable
  • Featural, shapes hint at how they sound
    • Vowels and Consonants are distinguishable
    • Consonants with similar articulations have the same base shape
  • Designed to be easy to learn

A syllable

김

(kim)

ᄀ

(g/k)

ᅵ

(i)

ᄆ

(m)

김

(kim)

삼성

Sam-sung

삼성

Consonants

ᄉ s ᄆ m ᄋ ng

삼성

Vowels

ᅡ a ᅥ eo/ö

삼성

Sam-sung

서울

Seo-ul

서울

Consonants

ᄉ s ᄋ (actually silent) ㄹ r/l (at the same time 😱)

서울

Vowels

ㅓ eo ㅡ eu/ü

서울

Seo-ul

Velar consonants ㄱ(g/k), ㅋ(k) Coronal consonants ㄴ(n), ㄷ(d), ㅌ(t), ㄹ(r/l) Bilabial consonants ㅁ(m), ㅂ(b), ㅍ(p) Sibilant consonants ㅅ(s), ㅈ(sh), ㅊ(ch) Dorsal consonants ㅇ(ng), ㅎ(h)
Simple vowels fromthe front of the mouth ㅣ(i), ㅏ(a), ㅓ(eo) Simple vowels fromthe back of the mouth ㅡ(eu), ㅗ(o), ㅜ(u)

There are more complex vowels too though 🙁.

감사합니다

Kam-sa-hap-ni-da

(Thank you)

ps. I am not a linguist, this is all either simplified or wrong.

Inventing an alphabet by @pkqk