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The simplicity of Hangul is partly because of the simplicity in the Korean syllables. It will be much harder to derive a simple writing system for a complex-sou
by dnqthao 13y ago
The simplicity of Hangul is partly because of the simplicity in the Korean syllables. It will be much harder to derive a simple writing system for a complex-sounding language like Vietnamese or English.
Btw, for the 3 countries, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, that were influenced by Chinese writing deeply, each of them has a different approach.
Korean came out with its Hangul writing system. Japanese came out with hiragana and katakana (together with Kanji). Vietnamese came out with Chu Nom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_nom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_nom) , a logographic script that is even more complex than Chinese characters.
- memsom 13y agoModern Vietnamese is written in romanised characters though, and Chu Nom is archaic and pretty much dead.
- riffraff 13y agoromanised characters are not roman characters though. Omitting the tones the words become unintelligible, as far as I can tell. What grandparente says regarding using hangul to express non-korean makes no sense to me. Sure, I can mostly get korean pronounce right using hungarian spelling, but it fails miserably the other way around. If a language is homophonic to hangul than of course it can be used for that, but the same is true of latin or most anything else.
- dnqthao 13y agoYes, you are right, nowadays Vietnamese did not use Chu Nom anymore. I think the main reason is because of its complexity.