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  2. Origin of Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Origin of Hangul. The inscription on a statue of King Sejong, illustrating the original forms of the letters. It reads 세종대왕, Sejong Daewang. Note the dots on the vowels, the geometric symmetry of s and j in the first two syllables, the asymmetrical lip at the top-left of the d in the third, and the distinction between initial and final ...

  3. Hangul - Wikipedia

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    Hangul supremacy (Korean: 한글 우월주의) or Hangul scientific supremacy is the claim that the Hangul alphabet is the simplest and most logical writing system in the world. [ 71 ] Proponents of the claim believe Hangul is the most scientific writing system because its characters are based on the shapes of the parts of the human body used ...

  4. Filipino alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters C/c, F/f, J/j, Ñ/ñ, Q/q, V/v, X/x, and Z/z are not used in most native Filipino words, but they are used in a few to some native and non-native Filipino words that are and that already have been long adopted, loaned, borrowed, used, inherited and/or incorporated, added or included from the other languages of and from the Philippines, including Chavacano and other languages that ...

  5. Filipino orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Filipino alphabet is primarily English alphabet plus the Spanish Ñ and Tagalog Ng digraph; these are alphabetised separately in theory. Today, the Modern Filipino alphabet is used, and may also serve as the alphabet for all autochthonous Philippine languages. Collation of the Modern Filipino Alphabet (28 letters):

  6. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Alphabet. An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1] Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns ...

  7. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

  8. Suyat - Wikipedia

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    Jawi' (Jawi: جاوي ‎) is an Arabic script for writing Tausūg, Malay, Acehnese, Banjarese, Minangkabau, and several other languages in Southeast Asia. A copy of Undang-Undang Melaka ('Laws of Malacca'). The script became prominent with the spread of Islam, supplanting the earlier writing systems. The Tausugs, Malays, and other groups that ...

  9. Tagalog phonology - Wikipedia

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    In the Palatuldikan (diacritical system), it is denoted by the pakupyâ or circumflex accent when the final syllable is stressed (e.g. dugô 'blood'), and by the paiwà (grave accent) if unstressed (susì 'key'). When followed by /j/, it is often pronounced [ʃ], particularly by speakers in urban areas.