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It is the intense educational requirements of the Chinese character system that led to the development of Hangul-am, the Korean character system. You still end
by failrate 10y ago
It is the intense educational requirements of the Chinese character system that led to the development of Hangul-am, the Korean character system. You still end up with a similar block structure, but it is phonetic and has about the same number of components as there are letters in the English alphabet.
- pqhwan 10y agoIt may be misleading to call it a "similar block structure". The structure may have been inspired by the way chinese characters are composited to form new ones, but it's really just a way of chunking phonetic letters into syllabic units.
- smilekzs 10y agoThat might be true, but an (perhaps more) important reason is literally the first 8 (chinese) characters in Hunminjeongeum [1], translated as follows: > Because the speech of this country is different from that of China, it [the spoken language] does not match the [Chinese] letters. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum
- failrate 10y agoYes, nationalism is an important consideration. I did not consider that in my opinion. I will now freely admit that there are probably other good reasons I have not considered. Thank you for the reference.