They were generally used in official documents by the ruling class. The illiteracy level also stayed high since reading and learning Chinese characters was restricted among the ordinary people. In addition, at the time when King Sejong was inventing Hangul the Ming Dynasty had just come to power in China, which changed the pronunciation of Chinese characters, making it harder for Koreans to learn the new standard pronunciation to record their words.
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Since Chinese language and Korean language share few similarities, borrowing Chinese characters proved to be inefficient to reflect the spoken language. īefore Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was created, Koreans used Chinese characters to record their words. UNESCO included the 1446 manuscript publishing the Hunminjeongeum in the Memory of the World Programme. The Annals place its invention to the 25th year of Sejong's reign, corresponding to 1443–1444. The Hunminjeongeum was announced in Volume 102 of the Annals of King Sejong, and its formal supposed publication date, October 9, 1446, is now Hangul Day in South Korea. The original spelling of the title was 훈〮민져ᇰ〮ᅙᅳᆷ Húnminjyéongʼeum (in North Korean version Húnminjyéonghʼeum). Four letters among the 28 were discarded over time.
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Originally containing 28 characters, it was created so that the common people illiterate in hanja (Chinese characters) could accurately and easily read and write the Korean language. The script was initially named after the publication but later came to be known as hangul.
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Hunminjeong'eum ( Korean: 훈민정음 Hanja: 訓民正音 lit. The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People) is a document describing an entirely new and native script for the Korean language.