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. |
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Summary of Contents 2013 | 11 |
THE KOREAN ALPHABET OF 1446 | 13 |
Expositions of Hwunmin Cengum | 25 |
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acoustic affricate affricate sound alveolar flap alveolar ridge articulation articulatory-acoustic correlates Articulatory-Acoustic Information basic grapheme bilabial Ceng compilers constriction degraphed Depicts and represents depicts the outline design principle diplogram distinctive features duration Entering Tone explicative rules extra stroke Five Agents formant frication glottal fricative graphic depiction graphic design graphic shape Hangul Heaven and Earth heavy aspiration homorganic horizontal stroke Hwunmin Cengum incisor grapheme incisors initially uttered phoneme King Sejong Korean alphabet Korean language labial labial grapheme labial innunciant laryngeal laryngeal grapheme letter shape lips medial phoneme mid-consonant structure musical nasal Neo-Confucian Number of frames occlusion Old Seal characters origin Orthophonic Alphabet palatal Pattern Phonemic identification Phonetic symbol phonological place of articulation produced rationale script segmental stroke semi-lingual speech production speech sounds tense terminal theory throat Tone tongue tip turbulence Twelve Semi-tones twenty-eight letters unaspirated velum vocal fold vocal tract voiced voiceless vowels writing system Yin-Yang