The Lost Letters of Hangul That Could’ve Changed the World

Julesy October 10, 2025
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Buy CAKE AUF🧁 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXLPJGF3 Buy CAKE AUF🧁 on Hawberry Games: https://www.hawberrygames.com Is the Korean writing system possibly the best writing system for the languages of the world? Learn about the lost history of Hangul (한글) in today's video. [Timeline] [00:00] English is the Most Opaque Language [01:30] The Origins of Hangul [03:06] What's "Wrong" with Hangul [06:05] Hangul's Controversial Start [07:19] Lost Letters of Hangul [09:23] Hangul's 방점 (Side Dots) [11:41] Consonant Clusters in Korean?? [13:26] The Other Country that uses Hangul [15:07] Personal Story Time [References] Borgwaldt, Susanne & Hellwig, Frauke & Groot, Annette. (2005). Onset Entropy Matters – Letter-to-phoneme Mappings in Seven Languages. Reading and Writing. 18. 211-229. 10.1007/s11145-005-3001-9. Lee, K.-M., & Ramsey, S. R. (2011). A history of the Korean language. Cambridge University Press. Park, Sukyung & Kang, Mun-Koo. (2021). Hangeul (Korean alphabet) Notation Method based on Hunminjeongeum, for the Pronunciations of [sh], [zh], and [ch] in Chinese Language. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange. 7. 11-20. 10.47116/apjcri.2020.01.02. Shen, Y., & Del Tufo, S. N. (2022). The influence of orthographic depth on multilinguals' neural networks. Neuropsychologia, 164, 108095. Wood, B., & Yang, C. (2024, November 16). Video: Indigenous dialect in Indonesia saved by Korea’s alphabet. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/3286843/indigenous-dialect-indonesia-saved-koreas-alphabet [Resources] https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/online-payment https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/phd https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/board-game www.pexels.com www.pixabay.com SAY HI! Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/julesytooshoes