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Hangul, (Korean: "Great Script")also spelled Hangeul or Han'gŭl, alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Chosŏn muntcha in North Korea, consists of 24 letters (originally 28), including 14 consonants and 10 vowels. The consonant characters are formed with curved or angled lines.
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The Korean alphabet (Hangul 한글) is the native script of Korea, invented by King Sejong the Great in 1443,[1][2] to represent spoken languages of Korean and its neighbors for uneducated people. Initially Hangul was called "Hunminjeongeum" (right sounds to teach people, 훈민정음 訓民正音) or "Jeongeum" (right sounds, 정음 正音) in short. It became the official Korean script in 1894 and enlightened the Korean people to get through Japanese colonization. Right after Korean independence in 1945, Hangul gained the official title.[3]
The Korean alphabet is a featural alphabet written in morpho-syllabic blocks, and was designed for both the Korean and Chinese languages, though the letters specific to Chinese are now obsolete.[4] Each block consists of at least one consonant letter and one vowel letter. When promulgated, the blocks reflected the morphology of Korean, but for most of the fifteenth century they were organized into syllables. In the twentieth century the morpho-syllabic tradition was revived. The blocks were traditionally written in vertical columns from top to bottom, although they are now commonly written in horizontal rows from left to right as well.
Spacing has been introduced to separate words, and punctuation to indicate clauses and sentences, so that the Korean alphabet now transcribes Korean at the levels of feature[specify], segment, syllable, morpheme, word, clause, and sentence. However, the suprasegmental features of tone and vowel length, seen as single and double tick marks to the left of the syllabic blocks in the image in the next section, have been dropped.[citation needed]
In 1948 North Korea introduced six new letters, including two of Sejong's which had become obsolete in order to make the Korean alphabet a perfect morphophonological fit to the Korean language.[citation needed] However they were soon discarded.[citation needed]
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