Sunday, July 17, 2011

The Scientific Letter: Hangul


1)Hangul, birth that out of the common
Do you know when the Hangul is birth? Most of the letters are made by many people down through something, commonly. But Hangul has one man-made letter and of course, it has purpose to make.
Hangul was made by King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joeseon Dynasty. And it was made in December, 1443. Hangul's original name is 'Hunminjungum', and it means'The letters that teaches subjects'. Long ago, we had our own word, but we didn't have our own letters. So we use the Chinese characters instead.
So King Sejong made the Hangul to correct to our word, and of course, he thought he had to made the letters that many of the people including poor people that can't learn the letters.
"We don't have our own letters and we use the Chinese characters instead.
But our own word is different with Chinese characthers and it is not understand each other. So many people wants to say many things but they don't know the letters, so they can't say their words to other people.
I out of the pity to them, so I make 28 letters new, and I'll call it Hunminjungum.
It can be teach many people easily and use it comfortably."
-The preface that King Sejong wrote the purpose of made the Hunminjungum.

2)The principal of Hangul
1. Be modeled our body and sky!
Hangul's consonant 'ㄱ,ㄴ,ㅁ,ㅅ,ㅇ'is ergnomic letters that reseemble with our vocal apparatus. Vowul ' · , ㅡ,ㅣ' is sky, land, man that Orient regard with root of the universe.
2. Plus!
molar voice ㄱ:ㄱ-ㅋ
tounge voiceㄴ : ㄴ-ㄷ-ㅌ
lip voiceㅁ:ㅁ-ㅂ-ㅍ
teeth voice ㅅ: ㅅ-ㅈ-ㅊ
throat voice o: o-o-ㅎ

3)Disappear letters
There is the disappear letters likeㅿ, ㆍ,ㆆ,ㆁ,ㆅ, ㅸ, ㅹ.

I'll done my post.
Dear Jane Yun Yeo jIN

1 comment:

  1. Well, you know that Hangul became the World heritage... and I am proud of it!!

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