The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, OPA, the Visible Speech Sounds, Translation with Annotation, Future ApplicabilityThe Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, is truly one of the great achievements of human invention. Developed (1443) and promulgated (1446) by the Korean monarch Sejong (1397-1450) himself, this alphabet demonstrates principles of design so far ahead of its time that only now, more than 550 years after its invention, are its remarkable qualities beginning to be appreciated. This superb scholarly edition by Korean language scholar Sek Yen Kim-Cho contains the original texts of Hwunmin Cengum and Hwunmin Cengum Haylyey (with photocopies of the originals in the appendices) and a complete, fully annotated translation in modern English. Beyond her analysis of historical texts, Dr. Kim-Cho critically expounds Sejong's design principle and also demonstrates that the Korean Orthophonic Alphabet is so versatile that it is ideally suited to promote and accelerate information processing and globalisation as a universal script. Its great adaptability makes it a perfect multilingual transcribing system for voice-recognition and voice dictation. |
Contents
Explanation of the Cover Illustration | 10 |
THE KOREAN ALPHABET OF 1446 | 13 |
Expositions of Hwunmin Cengum | 25 |
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acoustic added affricate affricate sound alveolar flap alveolar ridge alveolar stop articulation articulatory-acoustic correlates Articulatory-Acoustic Information basic grapheme Ceng Cineradiographic tracing cipher closure compilers consonant structure constriction degraphed depicts and represents depicts the outline diacritical mark diplogram Entering Tone explicative rules extra stroke Five Agents frication glottal fricative graphic depiction graphic design graphic shape Hangul harshness due heavy aspiration homorganic horizontal stroke Hwunmin Cengum incisors increased harshness initially uttered phoneme King Sejong Korean alphabet Korean language labial labial grapheme laryngeal laryngeal grapheme letter shape lips mid-consonant structure musical nasal Neo-Confucian Number of frames occlusion Old Seal characters origin Orthophonic Alphabet palatal Phonetic symbol Pinyin place of articulation produced rationale script segmental stroke semi-lingual speech production speech sounds tense theory throat tongue tip turbulence Twelve Semi-tones twenty-eight letters unaspirated velar grapheme velum vocal fold vocal fold vibration vocal tract voiced voiceless vowels writing system Yin-Yang zero cipher