Assertion: latin alphabet's letter | /r/HasProperty | simplified
Facets:
value: graphically
type: MANNER
value: according to ledyard
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to Ledyard, the five borrowed letters were graphically simplified, which allowed for consonant clusters and left room to add a stroke to derive the aspirate plosives, ㅋㅌㅍㅊ.
text: Originally ㅇ was two letters, a simple circle for silence (null consonant), and a circle topped by a vertical line, ㆁ , for the nasal ng .