[KS] Re: Koreanstudies digest, Vol 1 #562 - 4 msgs
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TCTufts53 at aol.com
Wed Apr 9 13:49:03 EDT 2003
I haven't heard that Korean is a particularly scientific language, but the
development of the script is said to be the only one that has a scientific
basis, as the scholars who developed it actually tried to shape the letters
in such a way that they represented the diagrams of the position of the
tongue in the mouth when the consonants were spoken in relation to the teeth,
the roof of the mouth, the back of the throat, etc. There are numerous
comments to this effect in the text books about the Korean language and
hangul.
Clark Tufts
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