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I have heard that hangul and Mongolic script are related, which might explain how the king was able to create a fully featured beautiful script like that in one
by inawarminister 4y ago
I have heard that hangul and Mongolic script are related, which might explain how the king was able to create a fully featured beautiful script like that in one go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
"However the character 古 gǔ also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 Měnggǔ "Mongol". Indeed, records from Sejong's day played with this ambiguity, joking that "no one is older (more 古 gǔ) than the 蒙古 Měng-gǔ". From palace records that 古篆字 gǔ zhuānzì was a veiled reference to the 蒙古篆字 měnggǔ zhuānzì "Mongol Seal Script", that is, a formal variant of the Mongol ʼPhags-pa alphabet of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) that had been modified to look like the Chinese seal script, and which had been an official script of the empire."
Might be true, might be not. Still interesting to see. And the Mongols themselves mostly stopped using their script to write in Cyrillic and Hanzi (?) now so.
We have another example of such great men creating a new script by himself after exposure to another script. Cherokee by Sequayah.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
- nine_k 4y agoThere are three really great, logical and legible writing systems known to me. First is, of course, tengwar, but no real spoken language uses it. Second if hangul, which is great overall and has an easy structure [2], with just a few historic warts. Third, there's Cree syllabary. Just look at the logic: [3]. [1]: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tengwar#Spelling_and_pronunciation https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tengwar#Spelling_and_pronunciat... [2]: https://sites.google.com/site/hangulanationallanguage/photo-gallery https://sites.google.com/site/hangulanationallanguage/photo-... [3]: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/plains-cree-syllabics-tracy-belly.html https://fineartamerica.com/featured/plains-cree-syllabics-tr...
- int_19h 4y agoIf constructed scripts are fair game, there are plenty of options - they just happen to be even more obscure than Tengwar. But, for example: https://jackhumbert.github.io/zbalermorna/write-up/ https://jackhumbert.github.io/zbalermorna/write-up/