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Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language primarily spoken throughout Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. Vietnamese is spo
An Nam quốc dịch ngữ 安南國譯語 records the pronunciations of 15th-century Vietnamese, such as for 天 (sky) – 雷 /luei/ representing blời (Modern Vietnamese: trời).
Four tones diagram shown in the book Thiền lâm bảo huấn hợp chú 禪林寶訓合註 (1858; Tự Đức thập nhất niên 嗣德十一年).
In the bilingual dictionary Nhật dụng thường đàm (1851), Chinese characters (chữ Nho) are explained in chữ Nôm.
Jean-Louis Taberd's dictionary Dictionarium anamitico-latinum (1838) represents Vietnamese (then Annamese) words in the Latin alphabet and chữ Nôm.
Vietnamese alphabet
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The Vietnamese alphabet is a Latin-based modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It has spelling conventions derived from the orthography of Romance languages such as Portuguese, Italian, a
Vietnamese language
…significant and important part of the lexicon. The vocabulary has also had influence from French. Vietnamese currently is written using a Latin-based alphabet known as chữ Quốc ngữ. The alphabet largely relies on 17th-century Portuguese orthography, and was officially adopted in the early 20th century during…
A page from Alexandre de Rhodes' 1651 dictionary