{"id":756,"date":"2008-10-30T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/globalizing-hangul\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T20:41:18","slug":"globalizing-hangul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Globalizing the Korean alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of linguists in Korea are looking into giving people with no written form of their language ways to write using the Korean alphabet (<em>hang\u016dl<\/em>), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/special\/2008\/10\/178_32754.html\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of communities they visited in Indonesia were keen on using <em>hang\u016dl<\/em> to write their languages and plan to send representatives to Korean to learn the alphabet, who will then to teach it to their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean alphabet is currently used only to write Korean, so it will be interesting to see how well it will work for other languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of linguists in Korea are looking into giving people with no written form of their language ways to write using the Korean alphabet (hang\u016dl), according to this article. A number of communities they visited in Indonesia were keen on using hang\u016dl to write their languages and plan to send representatives to Korean to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korean","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}