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 | | Gari Ledyard, Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University, believes that the derivation in the Hunmin Jeong-eum is a mnemonic, and that hangul actually derives, at least in part, from the Mongol Phagspa alphabet (the 蒙古篆字 měnggǔ zhuānzì, or Mongol seal script) of the Yuan dynasty. |
 | | Whereas the Hunmin Jeong-eum credits the graphically simplest letters ㄱㄴㅁㅅㅇ as being basic, with the others derived from these by adding strokes, Ledyard believes the letters ㄱㄷㄹㅂㅈ were basic, with strokes either added or subtracted to derive the others. |
 | | In the Hunmin Jeong-eum, before the influence from Chinese calligraphy on hangul, these are purely geometric. |
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