What is Hangul? Korean uses the writing system known as Hangul. An alphabet with 24 letters overall, Hangul is composed of 14 consonants and 10 vowels.

This makes Hangul one of just a handful of so-called featural alphabets, including Pitman Shorthand, the Shavian alphabet and Tengwar, one of Tolkien’s fictional writing systems.

Teaching Hangul, the Korean alphabet, to Cia-Cia children in Baubau, Indonesia. People trying to preserve the tribe’s spoken language found that the Korean script was a good fit for it.

Today, October 9, is Hangul Day, possibly the only holiday devoted to celebrating a writing system in the world!. The holiday commememorates the invention of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, in 1446.

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

Happy Hangul Day! October 9th is a South Korean national holiday held in honor of the invention of the Korean writing system, which experts have called the most “scientific” (plus the most ...