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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: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 21:03:33 GMT
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In article <31CADCBB.4E6A@ccil.org>, John Cowan  <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
>
>> In article <4q95hs$dme@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
>> Vidhyanath K. Rao <vidynath@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>> >I suspect that Hankul derived its ideas from more than one source.
>> 
>>         I suspect it is, too.  I simply see no cause for postulating
>> Devanagari as one of these sources.
>
>The standard ordering of letters looks suspiciously the same:
>velar stops, velar nasal, [palatals without Hangul counterparts],
>[retroflexes without Hangul counterparts], dental stops, dental nasal,
>palatal stops, palatal nasal, [semivowels without Hangul counterparts],
>fricatives, "h".

	What do you mean when you say "standard ordering"?  Modern
Korean alphabetical order is:
velar stop, dental nasal, dental stop, lateral/approximant, labial
nasal, labial stop, dental fricative, velar nasal, palatal stop,
aspirated stops (palatal, velar, dental, labial), "h".

>Might it not be the case that the Korean scholars drew on Buddhist
>documentation in determining the standard ordering?

	It *might* be the case.  Do you have any evidence at all that
it *is* the case?


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