Re: Neosyllabaries

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> > In the 19th
> > century, women, children, and laborers picked up Han'gul, or acquired
> > it without much teaching, from a Han'gul syllable chart (table 13-4)
> > that might be hung on a wall. ...
>
> Since there are thousands of possible syllable blocks, what can this
> wall chart look like?? Can you describe table 13-4? (Have you said what
> book you're looking at?)

My immediate guess would be that it is something like
http://www.page-view.jp/sample/korea/img/pdf/0002.pdf . It could of
course be cut down, as the consonants derive from 9 basic consonants
by diacritics (not perfectly regular) or gemination, and yodicisation
of the vowel is shown by doubling the short stroke in the vowel (is
that a diacritic?). The trick is just to show the CV combinations.

Richard.