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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Are all alphabets...? (cxu Hangul < Brahmi?)
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:46:11 GMT
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In article <4q95hs$dme@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
Vidhyanath K. Rao <vidynath@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>In article <Dt8By6.HtK@midway.uchicago.edu>,
>Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>I don't understand what leads you to this conclusion.  None of the 
>>South Asian alphabets have an arrangement remotely like the syllabic
>>blocks of Korean.  In fact, no alphabet in the world does.  If anything
>>served as an inspiration for this arrangement, it's likely to have been
>>Chinese characters, which are made up of discernable graphs (the so-called
>>"radicals" and "phonetics" and their components) in roughly square blocks,
>>each of which comprises a syllable.  Nevertheless, along with the
>>"logical" design of the characters, it remains one of Hankul's most dis-
>>tinctive features.
>
>I suspect that Hankul derived its ideas from more than one source.

	I suspect it is, too.  I simply see no cause for postulating
Devanagri as one of these sources.
[descr. of South Asian writing deleted]
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