Hanprome: Modified Hangeul for Expression of foreign language pronunciation

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel modification of Hangeul, altering stroke shapes to represent foreign pronunciations while maintaining the original letter forms, aiming to create a new phonetic notation system.

Contribution

It introduces a unique approach to modify Hangeul's stroke shapes for phonetic transcription of foreign languages, a first in linguistic research.

Findings

Proposed a method to modify Hangeul strokes for foreign pronunciation representation

Demonstrated the potential of stroke shape modification for phonetic transcription

Suggested a new direction for phonetic notation systems

Abstract

Hangeul was created as a phonetic alphabet and is known to have the best 1:1 correspondence between letters and pronunciation among existing alphabets. In this paper, we examine the possibility of modifying the basic form of Hangeul and using it as a kind of phonetic symbol. The core concept of this approach is to preserve the basic form of the alphabet, modifying only the shape of a stroke rather than the letter itself. To the best of our knowledge, no previous attempts in any language have been made to express pronunciations of an alphabet different from the original simply by changing the shape of the alphabet strokes, and this paper is probably the first attempt in this direction.