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Yale writes some pure vowels as digraphs. Vowels written to the right in Hangul (ㅏ, ㅓ) are written as a or e, and vowels that are written below (ㅗ,ㅜ,ㆍ, ㅡ) are wo, wu, o or u. Yale indicates fronting of a vowel (Middle Korean diphthongs), written in Hangul as an additional ㅣ, with a final -y. Palatalization is shown by a medial -y-.
As there are only five vowels in the Latin script, the other vowel sounds had to be rendered either using multiple letters in the form of digraphs (e.g. eo for ㅓ) or by using diacritics. [20] Also, in many cases, pronunciation does not exactly match what is written in Hangul; similar phenomena occurs with all other major scripts as well.
The vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. [6] [7] [8] It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems. [9] [7] Hangul was created in 1443 by Sejong the Great, fourth king of the Joseon dynasty.
The sign with the name of the railway station in Bucheon — at the top, a writing in hangul, the transcription in Latin script below using the Revised Romanization, along with the hanja text The sign with the name of the railway station in Jecheon — at the top, a writing in hangul, the transcription in Latin script below using the Revised ...
"An Explanation of the Combination of the Letters" (合字解) "Examples of the Uses of the Letters" (用字例) The original publication is 65 pages [2] printed in Hanja with right-to-left vertical writing, as is the case for all the ancient Korean literature in regular script, except where Hangul are mentioned and illustrated.
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 ...
letter) which are contiguously encoded in the 11,172 Unicode code points from U+AC00 (Decimal: 44,032 10) through U+D7A3 (Decimal: 55,203 10 = 44,032 + 11,171) within the Hangul Syllables Unicode block. However, the majority of these theoretically possible syllables do not correspond to syllables found in actual Korean words or proper names.
While the first Korean typewriter, or 한글 타자기, is unclear,the first Moa-Sugi style (모아쓰기,The form of hangul where consonants and vowels come together to form a letter; The standard form of Hangul used today) typewriter is thought to be first invented by Korean-American gyopo Lee Won-Ik (이원익) in 1914, where he modified a Smith Premier 10 typewriter's type into Hangul.