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| Oct 11, 2016 at 3:53 | comment | added | user3932000 | @qarma You have quite the conspiracy theory going there. Unfortunately, that's all that is—a conspiracy theory—that goes against all historical evidence. | |
| Oct 4, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | Tsundoku | Did those images come from the Wright House website? If yes, I think you should acknowledge the source. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 7:13 | vote | accept | Нет войне | ||
| Jun 24, 2016 at 10:51 | comment | added | Dima Tisnek | Yeah well if I created an alphabet and wanted others to adopt it, I would surely come up with a book the proves heavenly reasoning for my glyphs... or in different era humanistic reasons or in yet different era, numerology. IMO it's not a historical record of alphabet creation, rather a historical record or rationalisation of the alphabet. Rationalisation may correspond to origin, we'll never know. | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 2:12 | comment | added | MujjinGun | @qarma There were a lot of hypotheses around origins of Hangul before Hunminjeongeum haerye was discovered in 1940. After it was discovered, all of these hypotheses became obsolete, although they kind of still float around. Hunminjeongeum haerye was The Book that Hangul was announced to the public with. It clearly states where each letter's shapes were derieved from. There is still some possibility left that King Sejong who made the script got some inspiration from other writing systems, but mostly it's purely his invention. | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 1:36 | comment | added | JSong | And there are more explanations for other consonants such as ㅋ, ㅃ, ㅆ and so on in Hunminjeongeum Haerye. | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 1:33 | comment | added | JSong | Hunminjeongeum Haerye says "正音二十八字, 各象其形而制之. 初聲凡十七字. 牙音ㄱ, 象舌根閉喉之形. 舌音ㄴ, 象舌附上腭之形. 脣音ㅁ, 象口形. 齒音ㅅ, 象齒形. 喉音ㅇ, 象喉形." It translates into "훈민정음 스물 여덟 자는 각각 그 모양을 본떠서 만들었다. 초성은 모두 열 일곱자다. 아음(어금니 소리) ㄱ은 혀뿌리가 목구멍을 막는 모양을 본뜨고, 순음(입술소리) ㅁ은 입모양을 본뜨고, 치음(잇 소리) ㅅ은 치아 모양을 본뜨고, 후음(목구멍 소리) ㅇ은 목구멍의 모양을 본뜬 것이다." | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 1:31 | comment | added | JSong | @qarma It's NOT a backward explanation, because it is described in Hunminjeongeum Haerye! You can check it on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#Letter_design and koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/%ED%9B%88%EB%AF%BC%EC%A0%95%EC%9D%8C | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | Dima Tisnek | That's a common "backsplanation" that is, is was most likely created after the fact. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 8:28 | history | answered | JSong | CC BY-SA 3.0 |