The Brahmi Family Of Scripts And Hangul: Alphabets or Syllabaries?

A great deal of disagreement exists as to whether the writing systems of the Brahmi family of scripts and the Hangul script of Korea should be classified as alphabets or syllabaries. In fact, each system exhibits a significant amount of characteristics of both types, and neither label entirely does...

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Main Author: University of Kansas Department of Linguistics editors
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1992-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/637