Hangul as a global alphabet manque
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Best 16:34 introduction to the Korean alphabet you'll ever encounter — by Julesy, of course:
Her title: "The Lost Letters of Hangul That Could’ve Changed the World" (about two weeks ago).
Aside from restoring the lost letters, other things to consider for the further perfection of Hangul: parsing / spacing, indexing, ordering, inputting, capitalization, punctuation, linearization (instead of being imprisoned in the tetragraphic block form, which was strictly designed for compatibility with hanja).
Selected readings
- "The Hangeul Alphabet Moves beyond the Korean Peninsula" (8/6/09)
- "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part II" (12/24/09)
- "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part III" (10/7/10)
- "Cha-cha Cia-cia: the last dance" (10/8/12)
- "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part IV" (1/5/24)
- "Hangul as alphasyllabary" (5/14/25)
- "Grids galore" (11/19/23)
- "Hangul: Joseon subservience to Ming China" (5/14/22)
- "Hangul for Cantonese" (11/18/24)
- Coblin, W. South (2006). A Handbook of ʼPhags-pa Chinese. ABC Dictionary Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3000-7 — 'Phags-pa played a key role in the creation of Hangul
- "Happy Hangul Day!" (10/9/23)
- "The pragmatic and innovative Choe Sejin — 15th-16th c. Korean phonetician, translator, and interpreter" (4/21/22)
- "Hangul Day" (10/9/05) — a very nice article by Bill Poser
- "Hangul Day" (10/9/15) — catchy theme song; noteworthy comments
- "A Dartmouth grad's contribution to the development of Hangul" (6/25/15)
- "Korean Romanization" (6/26/21)
- "The esthetics of East Asian writing" (4/7/12)
- "Apostrophe in Hangul" (11/16/16)
- "Sinitic 'ha ha ha' in Hangul letters" (9/18/20)
Peter Grubtal said,
November 8, 2025 @ 10:12 am
…manqué, please.
Victor Mair said,
November 8, 2025 @ 11:17 am
Watch your prescriptivism, please. I was certainly aware of the pronunciation "manqué" already in middle school, but by college and up to today, I noticed that many people whom I respect didn't adhere to that religiously. See here.
Stephen Goranson said,
November 8, 2025 @ 11:07 am
Fascinating. The use of Hangul in Indonesia was news to me.