3. Prof. Geoffrey Sampson's Comment

"A Featural System: Korean Hangeul"

(Sampson 1985, p. 120, Writing System , Stanford University Press)

 “ Korea is a fairly small and very distant country, but it is a country of great significance for the linguist in two respects. It was in Korea, in the middle of 15 th century, a Korean created for the use of his countrymen a wholly original and quite remarkable phonographic script, nowadays called Hangeul , which has been described as ‘perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country' (Reischauer 1960, p. 435), or more simply as ‘ the world's best alphabet' (Vos 1964, p.31)”.

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Geoffrey Sampson, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Science,

University of Sussex , Falmer, Brighton BNI 9RH, United Kingdom. Author of “ Writing Systems, A linguistic introduction ”, Stanford Press, 1985