Re: Korean counterpart to Braille

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> Hmm... Not quite a writing system. It's called "hunminjunghum",

although

> the Web page title spells it "mun...".
> <http://www.kcaf.or.kr/art500/kangairan/y90/view/g9041.htm>
> It's a 2 (col.) by 3 (row) dot matrix.
>
> Fwiw, just now, I'm adding han'gul charts to my archives. It seems

that

> the counts of vowels and consonants vary from one source to another...

It partly depends on whether you insist on the syllables being CVC.
There's a diphthong which started out as /ai/ but is now usually
transcribed as 'ae'. Then there are the 'archaic' syllables, which
the Unicode manual tantalising refers to as being outside the system
of composed syllables.

As to the consonants, there are matters such as how you handle the
writing of the tensed stops - separate symbols or geminates? And are
the aspirated stops (and <h> for that matter!) marked by diacritics or
are they separate letters?

Richard.