subject: Benefits Of Hangul Over Other Languages [print this page] Hangul, or Hangeul, was devised~invented~made in 1443 by King Sejong, one of the greatest monarch of the Yi Dynasty. Before Hangul, other Korean scripts used a complex system of Chinese characters to represent~make the sounds of Korean. But because of~due to the differences between Chinese and Korean, Chinese characters could not adequately denote~express Korean speech. Further, only the elite~high-level people~well-educated people could afford the time necessary to study Chinese, so King Sejong (1397-1450) commissioned the invention of a phonetic script both more efficient and more accessible to the common people. Described as one of the most scientific alphabets ever devised, Hangul consists of 24 letters: 14 consonants and 10 vowels. Combinations of these letters represent 5 double consonants and 11 diphthongs. The letters, grouped in clusters of 2, 3, or 4, form syllables and words. The invention~creation~birth of Hangul marks a major achievement in the history of Korean culture because it has contributed to~helped toward one of the highest~strongest~best literacy rates in the world.
Why is the Korean language superior to~better than others?
1. Hangul s the only writing system that has birth record. We don't know who made the character and how it changes to today's form for most of the writing system in the world. But Hangul has a record In Sejong Shilok (One of the Korean historical Book) that King Sejong made 28 characters and that's name is Hoonminjungeum (Hangeul).
2. Hangul is a very scientific and systematic character. Hangul alphabets are created by dual system which create a few main character and then create others from that. Basic Hangul consonants created from the model of vocal organs and basic Hangul vowels from sky, earth and people.
3. Hangul is a phonemic writing system that maximizes the use of the characters. Even though Hangul is phonemic, initial consonant, vowel and final consonant make letter like syllable which is a very original way.
4. Hangul vowels always make same sounds. This is the reason why Korean is relatively easier to learn for a foreigner.
5. Sound and character matches very well because there is no silence sound in Hangul.
6. Hangul is only one feature writing system in the world When we place a stack of the main character it makes strong sound and add up. One more line makes strongest sound
7. Writing vertically and horizontally~horizontally and vertically~up and down or left and right is possible.
8. Because consonants and vowels are completely separated, we could write with only~just 10 keyboard characters.
9. Because the ability to implement a character's sound is very good~great~excellent, it could be a good means of expression for the nations that don't have any character for writing.
For more examples of how words are written in Korean~Hangul, you may want to refer to a Korean dictionary~an English Korean dictionary~a Korean English dictionary~a Korean translator.
