Hangul | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/12/2018

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Hangul


00:01:30 1 Names
00:01:38 1.1 Official names
00:02:57 1.2 Other names
00:03:44 2 History
00:03:52 2.1 Creation
00:05:37 2.2 Opposition
00:06:28 2.3 Revival
00:07:52 2.4 Reforms and prohibition under Japanese rule
00:10:01 2.5 Further reforms
00:11:12 2.6 Contemporary use
00:12:14 3 Letters
00:12:36 3.1 Consonants
00:13:19 3.2 Vowels
00:13:41 4 Alphabetic order
00:14:12 4.1 Historical orders
00:15:09 4.2 North Korean order
00:16:13 4.3 South Korean order
00:17:13 5 Letter names
00:17:45 5.1 In North Korea
00:18:54 5.2 In South Korea
00:19:39 6 Stroke order
00:20:09 7 Letter design
00:20:33 7.1 Consonant design
00:24:01 7.2 Vowel design
00:26:49 7.2.1 Simple vowels
00:27:23 7.2.2 Compound vowels
00:27:51 7.2.3 Iotized vowels
00:29:15 7.2.4 Traditional account
00:29:19 7.2.5 Ledyard's theory of consonant design
00:32:23 8 Obsolete letters
00:35:19 8.1 Most common
00:40:26 9 Restored letters
00:42:21 10 Unicode
00:44:20 11 Morpho-syllabic blocks
00:45:15 11.1 Letter placement within a block
00:46:56 11.2 Block shape
00:48:27 11.3 Linear Korean
00:49:53 12 Orthography
00:51:21 12.1 Mixed scripts
00:52:24 13 Readability
00:54:25 14 Style
00:55:26 15 See also
00:56:34 16 Notes
00:58:24 17 Citations
00:59:05 18 References



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SUMMARY
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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul ( HAHN-gool; from Korean  한글 Korean pronunciation: [ha(ː)n.ɡɯl]) has been used to write the Korean language since its creation in the 15th century by Sejong the Great. It may also be written Hangeul following the standard Romanization.
It is the official writing system of North Korea and South Korea. It is a co-official writing system in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County in Jilin Province, China. It is sometimes used to write the Cia-Cia language spoken near the town of Bau-Bau, Indonesia.
The alphabet consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels. Its letters are grouped into syllabic blocks, vertically and horizontally. For example, the Korean word for "honeybee" (kkulbeol) is written 꿀벌, not ㄲㅜㄹㅂㅓㄹ. As it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, it has been described as an "alphabetic syllabary" by some linguists. As in traditional Chinese writing, Korean texts were traditionally written top to bottom, right to left, and are occasionally still written this way for stylistic purposes. Today, it is typically written from left to right with spaces between words and western-style punctuation.Some linguists consider it among the most phonologically faithful writing systems in use today. One interesting feature of Hangul is that the shapes of its consonants seemingly mimic the shapes of the speaker's mouth when pronouncing each consonant.