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As hangul was consciously created by literate experts, Daniels characterizes it as a "sophisticated grammatogeny"[52]—a writing system intentionally designed for a specific purpose, as opposed to having evolved gradually over time.
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Missing from these discussions is a much-needed analysis of script invention—or ‘grammatogeny’ (Daniels 1992)—as a global twentieth-century phenomenon.
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My own study of the linguistic background of theorigin of writing (Daniels 1988) suggests that the greatintellectual achievement in grammatogeny is not theaddition of vowel symbols to a consonantal abjad, butthe development of the abjad itself-the isolation ofthe phonological segment.
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