| Physical description |
xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Young-Key Kim-Renaud -- 2. The Inventor of the Korean Alphabet / Ki-Moon Lee -- 3. The International Linguistic Background of the Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People / Gari Ledyard -- 4. The Principles Underlying the Invention of the Korean Alphabet / Pyong-Hi Ahn -- 5. Graphical Ingenuity in the Korean Writing System: With New Reference to Calligraphy / Sang-Oak Lee -- 6. The Vowel System of the Korean Alphabet and Korean Readings of Chinese Characters / Sinhang Kang -- 7. The Invention of the Alphabet and the History of the Korean Language / S. Robert Ramsey -- 8. The Structure of Phonological Units in Han'gul / Chin W. Kim -- 9. The Phonological Analysis Reflected in the Korean Writing System / Young-Key Kim-Renaud -- 10. Orthographic Divergence in South and North Korea: Toward a Unified Spelling System / Ho-Min Sohn -- 11. Experimentation with Han'gul in Russia and the USSR, 1914-1937 / Ross King -- 12. Commentary / Samuel E. Martin. |
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App. 1. A Brief Description of the Korean Alphabet -- App. 2. Photographs of the Hunmin chong'um and Hunmin chong'um haerye -- App. 3. Photographs of a Page of a North Korean Newspaper and a Page of a South Korean Newspaper -- App. 4. Comparison of Romanization Systems. |
| Other author |
Kim-Renaud, Young-Key.
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| Subject |
Korean language -- Alphabet.
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Korean language -- Alphabet -- History.
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| ISBN |
0824819896 (cloth) |
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0824817230 (alkaline paper) |
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