Re: this time, for real...
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 23, 2001, 15:42 |
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Danny Wier wrote:
> I've found a partial German translation of _Hunmunjongum_ (King Sejong's
> formal proposal for Hangul) but I lost the URL. I know pretty much what
> there is to know about the *original* Hangul script, which has a few extra
> consonants and one extra vowel and is more geometric in design, except for
> the "soft labials" (the labial consonants: /m/, /p/, /pp/, /p'/) and their
> phonetic value. So any info would be appreciated.
Try _The Korean Alphabet_ ed. by Young-Key Kim-Renaud. It's got a lot of
essays on exactly that, adn the phonetics as well. I don't guarantee it
has what you're looking for (and I don't have time to read the whole
thing at the moment), but it's a place to start.
YHL