The Korean alphabet can be classified as a phonemic writing system, with some characteristics of a partial featural writing system. From a pure linguistic perspective, the correspondence between the graphemes and the phonemic features is inconsistent, especially in the vowel letters. The vowel letters cannot be analyzed into subcomponents on a purely phonological basis. However, there exists in the vowel letters a systematic one-to-one correspondence between the basic graphemes and their philosophical principles, not between graphemes and phonemic features. Phonological properties of the vowel graphemes change at each letter construction level, in accordance with the structure of a letter as a whole. This methodology of letter construction is based on the traditional natural philosophy of the East Asia.
1. The Korean alphabet and the typological classification problem
2. The typological category of the Korean alphabet
3. Visualizing phonemic features in the Korean alphabet
4. Philosophical background of ever changing property values
5. Conclusion
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