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rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The closest was probably the guy who invented the Korean alphabet. Dude looked at the scribes and scholars struggling to fit Chinese characters to a language they don’t mesh with at all in terms of phonetics and grammar and said “fine, I’ll do it myself”.

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FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Indeed, but he understood the concept of writing already, and several existing scripts (besides Chinese) were known to him and his court, so he could consciously take those ideas and work with them.

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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s also how the Cyrillic alphabet came to be

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- rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Cyrillic was at least based on Greek, for Korean it looks like mostly original glyphs
  
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