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Part I - Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

Sungdai Cho  and
John Whitman
Sungdai Cho
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Binghamton
John Whitman
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Korean
A Linguistic Introduction
 , pp. 7 - 60
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Readings

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Lee, Ki-moon. 1997. The inventor of the Korean alphabet. In Kim-Renaud, (ed.), 1997a, 11–30.Google Scholar
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Kim-Renaud, Young-Key (ed.). 1997a. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.Google Scholar
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