[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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