Few linguistic developments in history have been as profoundly impactful and meticulously crafted as the creation of Hangul, ...

Emily Bary is a MarketWatch news editor based in New York.

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab plans ... Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media ...

However, with a Google search, you’ll learn that those characters are based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, which has been used by university linguists to represent sounds of various ...

For example, letters such as ‘c’ and ‘j’ from the general alphabet will only be used in languages that have sounds such as [ʤ] and [ȝ] (international phonetic alphabet). One of these letters is enough ...