Hangul jamo issues - are jamo sequences legitimate?

Soobok Lee lsb at lsb.org
Tue Jan 9 14:46:56 CET 2007


On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:29:16PM +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> 
> But see  http://www.hangul.or.kr/4-b23.htm  
> (This is a scanned image of old HUN-MIN-JEONG-EUM HAE-RYAE texts
> written by JUNG IN-JI (one of hangul inventors) in 15th century.

More:

You can look into 
    http://www.hangul.or.kr/4-10.html 
and http://www.hangul.or.kr/4-9.html  as well.

They contains words of consonant/vowel sequences in old sentences.

Soobok

> 
> You can see KI-YEOK and other jamos and even _jamo sequences_ are 
> used in korean sentences as independent words. 
> 
> KI-YEOK without vowel jamos should be pronunciated
> according to the context,  mostly as "KI-YEOK", but in some 
> cases pronunciated as having hidden vowel EU.
> 
> vowel jamo O-AE without preceding consonant should be pronunciated
> according to the context,  mostly as "O-AE",
> as having hidden preceding consonant I-EUNG.
> 
> Jamo sequences or single-jamo word is not a hangul syllable, but
> had, ___ by definition ____, been legitimate from 15th century.
> 
> And, that is why we can see  jamo-containing words in dictionaries
> and business names and book names etc.


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