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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Korean alphabet known as Hangul. It describes: 1) Hangul uses combinations of three basic strokes to represent vowels and consonants, modeled after heaven, earth, and humanity. 2) Vowels are represented by placing one or more basic strokes horizontally or vertically, and diphthongs are made by adding a stroke. 3) The 19 consonants depict speech organs like lips and tongue, with related sounds created by extra strokes. While most consonant sounds are similar to English, 'n' is pulled forward before 'i' or 'y'.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Korean alphabet known as Hangul. It describes: 1) Hangul uses combinations of three basic strokes to represent vowels and consonants, modeled after heaven, earth, and humanity. 2) Vowels are represented by placing one or more basic strokes horizontally or vertically, and diphthongs are made by adding a stroke. 3) The 19 consonants depict speech organs like lips and tongue, with related sounds created by extra strokes. While most consonant sounds are similar to English, 'n' is pulled forward before 'i' or 'y'.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Korean alphabet known as Hangul. It describes: 1) Hangul uses combinations of three basic strokes to represent vowels and consonants, modeled after heaven, earth, and humanity. 2) Vowels are represented by placing one or more basic strokes horizontally or vertically, and diphthongs are made by adding a stroke. 3) The 19 consonants depict speech organs like lips and tongue, with related sounds created by extra strokes. While most consonant sounds are similar to English, 'n' is pulled forward before 'i' or 'y'.

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    Korean Letters

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    The document summarizes key aspects of the Korean alphabet known as Hangul. It describes: 1) Hangul uses combinations of three basic strokes to represent vowels and consonants, modeled after heaven, earth, and humanity. 2) Vowels are represented by placing one or more basic strokes horizontally or vertically, and diphthongs are made by adding a stroke. 3) The 19 consonants depict speech organs like lips and tongue, with related sounds created by extra strokes. While most consonant sounds are similar to English, 'n' is pulled forward before 'i' or 'y'.

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    HANGUL: THE KOREAN

    ALPHABETS
    (SHAPE AND SOUND)
    VOWEL SHAPES
    • All vowel letters are composed of one
    or more of three kinds of strokes:
    • a long vertical stroke ( ㅣ )
    • a long horizontal stroke ( ㅡ )
    • and a short horizontal or vertical
    stroke ( ㅡ or ㅣ )
    • The short stroke was originally a
    round dot (·).
    • The three basic strokes were modeled
    after the cosmological philosophy of
    heaven represented by dot (·), earth
    represented by horizontal line ( ㅡ ),
    and human being represented by
    vertical line ( ㅣ ).
     한 글 (Hangeul) has six simple  The short stroke is placed horizontally
    letters and two compound letters on a long vertical vowel stroke, as in ㅏ
    to represent eight simple vowel and ㅓ and vertically on a long
    sounds. horizontal stroke, as in ㅗ and ㅜ .
    VOWEL The qualities of Korean vowels are not the same as those
    PRONUNCIATIO of English vowels, although they can be approximated as
    follows.
    N
    DIPHTHONG
    (SEMIVOWEL +
    Diphthongs with the semivowel y
    VOWEL) LETTERS

    • One additional short stroke makes


    each of the six single-letter
    vowels a diphthong with y, as
    follows.
    • Remember that stroke order is
    top to bottom and left to right.
    • The distinction between ㅐ and
    ㅔ is lost in casual speech, both
    being pronounced as , but is
    retained in writing as well as in
    extremely careful pronunciation.
    DIPHTHONG
    (SEMIVOWEL +
    Diphthongs with the semivowel w and the diphthong ŭi
    VOWEL) LETTERS

    • There are six diphthongs


    beginning with the sound of /w/.
    • These are graphically expressed
    by combining two simple vowel
    letters.
    • The letters ㅗ and ㅜ are used
    to represent the semivowel sound
    w.
    • There is an idiosyncratic
    diphthong which consists of ㅡ
    and ㅣ .
    CONSONANT k/g
    SHAPES
    n
    • There are nineteen consonant letters.
    • Consonant letters originally depicted the speech
    organs that produce consonant sounds: the lips,
    tooth, tongue, and throat.
    • The shapes of these organs are associated with m
    the following five consonant letters.
    • The remaining fourteen consonants are produced
    in the same general areas as the above five places
    of articulation.
    s
    • Thus, the letters representing the sounds related
    to the above five sounds are derived by adding
    extra strokes to the basic letters.

    ng
    CONSONAN
    T SOUNDS
    • Of the nineteen consonant letters
    given above, the sound qualities of
    the four letters ㅁ , ㄴ , ㅇ , and ㅎ
    are essentially the same as in English:
    m (as in map, team), n (as in nose,
    moon), ng (as in song, king), and h (as
    in hit, hope), respectively.

    • The only exception is that ㄴ is


    pulled to the hard-palate position
    before the palatal vowel i or the
    semivowel y, as in 안니 and 안녕 .

    • This pronunciation is called


    palatalization, in that is assimilated to
    the palatal vowel or semivowel.

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