At 21:44 -0600 10/11/01, Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>Structural
>elements in (e.g.) Latin or Arabic typically represent phones/phonemes;
>structural elements in (e.g.) Cree or Katakana typically represent
>syllables; Hangul has structural elements that represent phones/phonemes
>but also has structural elements that represent syllables.

I'd say that Hangul has structural elements that represent
phones/phonemes and it arranges those strucural elements in a
non-linear way in syllabic units.

I don't believe it meets the criteria for syllabary. It's completely
decomposable. And of course there were the Soviet experiments in
writing unclustered Hangul text.
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