Re: Featural Alphabets (was Re: Boustrophedon and Chinese (was Re: A single font can

Hi!

tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> writes:
>...
> King Sejong's Hangeul system for Korean is supposed to be a
> featurography, but I don't think it really is.
>...
Hmm??  Errm, how close a look did you have?  The layout of the vowel
letters (almost!) looks like an IPA vowel space map and the consonants
are also obviously assigned by POA plus consonant modifications
(e.g. 'plus one stroke') do the same thing to different letters
(e.g. add voicing).  It's strange to me that you say that that system
is not really featural.  It looks surprisingly featural to me and also
very constructed.

**Henrik

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