In my opinion, hangul is the most logical and rational of all the writing systems. Very few surprises when reading something unfamiliar.

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int_19h 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

It would be nice if the original design (with dots etc) was preserved, rather than trying to make it look more like Chinese.

It's also unfortunate that what was originally a purely phonemic script was gradually transformed into a morphophonemic system. The changes that happened to the language post Sejong were also accommodated in a much more ad-hoc manner than the original elegant design.

(To be fair, the original took years of research to get that final design! But, all the more reason to keep it up to date, no?)

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zzo38computer 7 months ago | parent [-]

What is the original design with dots etc?

	▲	int_19h 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul#/media/File:K... Here's another one that shows standalone jamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul#/media/File:H... So, basically, all the consonant jamo were simple geometric shapes, with more straight lines and fewer curves. For vowels, what is today treated as a line with a stroke was actually a combination of a line and a dot (the dot itself being a glyph for a vowel that has since disappeared from the language).

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eleveriven 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Hangul’s logic and rationality are what make it stand out among writing systems