Editing Alphabet (section)

=== Other alphabets ===

==== Hangul ====
In [[Korea]], [[Sejong the Great]] created the [[Hangul]] alphabet in 1443. Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a [[featural alphabet]], where the design of many of the letters comes from a sound's place of articulation, like P looking like the widened mouth and L looking like the tongue pulled in.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hitkari |first=Cherry |date=2021-10-06 |title=Alphabet's Epitome: The Invention of Hangul and its Contribution to the Korean Society |url=https://thekootneeti.in/2021/10/06/alphabets-epitome-the-invention-of-hangul-and-its-contribution-to-the-korean-society/ |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref>{{bsn|date=September 2024}} The creation of Hangul was planned by the government of the day,<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Hangul |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hangul-Korean-alphabet |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref> and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as [[Chinese characters]]. This change allows for mixed-script writing, where one syllable always takes up one type space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kolers |first1=Paul A. |title=Processing of visible language |last2=Wrolstad |first2=Merald Ernest |last3=Bouma |first3=Herman |publisher=Plenum |year=1980 |isbn=0-306-40576-8 |location=New York}}{{pn|date=November 2024}}</ref>

==== Bopomofo ====
[[Bopomofo]], also referred to as ''zhuyin'', is a [[semi-syllabary]] used primarily in [[Taiwan]] to transcribe the sounds of [[Standard Chinese]]. Following the  proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and its adoption of [[Hanyu Pinyin]] in 1956, the use of bopomofo on the mainland is limited. Bopomofo developed from a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a syllabary. Like an alphabet, the phonemes of [[syllable onset|syllable initials]] are represented by individual symbols, but like a syllabary, the phonemes of the [[syllable rime|syllable finals]] are not; each possible final (excluding the [[syllable medial|medial glide]]) has its own character, an example being ''luan'' written as ㄌㄨㄢ (''l-u-an''). The last symbol ㄢ takes place as the entire final ''-an''. While bopomofo is not a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a [[romanization]] system, for aiding pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Definition of the Bopomofo Chinese Phonetic System |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/bopomofo-zhuyin-fuhao-2279518 |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=ThoughtCo}}</ref>{{bsn|date=September 2024}}