tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 26 00:32:05 2008
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Re: idea for writing system
Sounds to me like you know what you're talking about. Thanks for helping me
understand this better. jIyaj.
Benjamin Barrett writes:
> The issue I'm referring to isn't whether it's a perfect match, but
> whether it's phonetic or phonemic. Korean is phonemic; languages such
> as English and French are phonetic. The character corresponding most
> closely to "k," for example, stands for the sounds "k" and "g"
> depending on the context because voicing is phonemic in Korean. It is
> this feature plus the fact that the characters mimic the shape of the
> mouth that makes King Sejong's work so incredible. AFAIK, there is NO
> dialect of Korean that doesn't have this representation regardless of
> local variation. BB
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