Editing Alphabet (section)

==== 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>