Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

An alphabet is a collection of letter symbols that have been more or less standardized, and which often – though not always – reflect all of the sounds made in a particular language.

Other hieroglyphs represented strings of sounds. A goose could stand for the word "goose" gb, the sound gb, or — followed by a glyph of a seated god — the name of the earth-god Geb.

With such an alphabet it will be practically impossible to make any mistake either in spelling or pronunciation. It is hard to end an argument like this; it is easier to write a book on the ...