Re: Basque & Katzner's Languages of the World
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 16, 2001, 1:18 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> In short, according to the accepted definition of an alphabet, Hangul is one.
Well, if alphabet must be arbitrary shapes representing sounds, then
yes. But, seeing as how Hangul is based on phonetic principles, there
is a kind of logic in calling it another category, "Featural code". Of
course, that would make a category with only one member. :-) So, I
personally would also consider it an alphabet.
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