[KS] Hangul in Indonesia
Michael Rank
rank at mailbox.co.uk
Sun Sep 13 14:00:42 EDT 2009
See also
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125261759118600981.html
which says One of South Korea's leading phonetics experts in the late
1990s devised a Hangeul-based alphabet for Lahu, spoken by an ethnic
group that lives in southern China and Southeast Asia. But such efforts
haven't sparked a broad adoption of Hangeul.
and
…Lee Hyun-bok, a distinguished linguist now retired from his post at
Seoul National University, who has created an international phonetic
alphabet based on Hangeul. His alphabet has more than 80 letters,
compared with the 24 used today to write Korean, and is designed to
cover nearly every human speech sound.
Michael Rank
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