Hangul as a global alphabet manque

Best 16:34 introduction to the Korean alphabet you'll ever encounter — by Julesy, of course:

Her title:  "The Lost Letters of Hangul That Could’ve Changed the World" (about two weeks ago).

Aside from restoring the lost letters, other things to consider for the further perfection of Hangul:  parsing / spacing, indexing, ordering, inputting, capitalization, punctuation, linearization (instead of being imprisoned in the tetragraphic block form, which was strictly designed for compatibility with hanja).

 

Selected readings

• "The Hangeul Alphabet Moves beyond the Korean Peninsula" (8/6/09)
• "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part II" (12/24/09)
• "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part III" (10/7/10)
• "Cha-cha Cia-cia: the last dance" (10/8/12)
• "Hangeul for Cia-Cia, part IV" (1/5/24)
• "Hangul as alphasyllabary" (5/14/25)
• "Grids galore" (11/19/23)
• "Hangul: Joseon subservience to Ming China" (5/14/22)
• "Hangul for Cantonese" (11/18/24)
• Coblin, W. South (2006). A Handbook of ʼPhags-pa Chinese. ABC Dictionary Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3000-7 — 'Phags-pa played a key role in the creation of Hangul
• "Happy Hangul Day!" (10/9/23)
• "The pragmatic and innovative Choe Sejin — 15th-16th c. Korean phonetician, translator, and interpreter" (4/21/22)
• "Hangul Day" (10/9/05) — a very nice article by Bill Poser
• "Hangul Day" (10/9/15) — catchy theme song; noteworthy comments
• "A Dartmouth grad's contribution to the development of Hangul" (6/25/15)
• "Korean Romanization" (6/26/21)
• "The esthetics of East Asian writing" (4/7/12)
• "Apostrophe in Hangul" (11/16/16)
• "Sinitic 'ha ha ha' in Hangul letters" (9/18/20)