What is Pahanngana?
Pahanngana is a new alphabet used to write the Japanese language.
Why, you may ask?
While Japanese is currently written in Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, these writing systems are lacking when it comes to deeper linguistic analysis.
Pahanngana is a modified version of the Korean alphabet, Hangul.
While most of the letters and fundamental sound and structure rules are the same, there are significant differences between the Hangul and Pahnngana.
This website will be dedicated to rewriting the entire Japanese language into Pahanngana.
In the same way you can write the entire Japanese language in Romaji, I’m proposing that it is not only possible to write the Japanese language in Pahanngana, but essential to getting a fuller and deeper understanding of how sounds work in the Japanese language.
Here are some things we can do after we have written the entire Japanese language into Pahanngana.
- Compare Native Japanese and Native Korean vocabularies
- Compare Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean vocabularies
- See how and why various sound changes happen in Japanese and establish rules
- Explain how and why these sound changes happen instead of just saying “Oh, you just need to memorize that.”
- much, much more . . .
This is going to be a long project, and I hope that you will join me for this journey!
— Judd