Context: Sejong the Great of Korea, created the Korean alphabet (mostly) by himself. This replaced the earlier use of the Chinese alphabet.
I remember a friend learning Hangul extremely quickly. Since it’s ‘constructed’ rather than developed ad hoc, it’s supposed to be very intuitive.
Me, I’m lucky I remember that Latin alphabet.
I learned to read Hangul in less than 6 months. Living in Korea helped with infinite building signage to practice with. I have almost no vocabulary or grammer. But the pronunciation was on point. Could read anyword. E: and I’m an idiot. So yes very intuitively.
Descriptive linguistics : Noo you can’t force people to use language a certain way! It has to naturally evolve!
Prescriptive linguists : Here’s some sick tech our language needs, with this we can communicate even better. Check it out, my man over here was as literate as his horses, now he can write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet_reformHappened more than once folks.
Japan and China should’ve copied it from him and added whatever consonants were missing for their needs.
