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Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language primarily spoken in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. Vietnamese is spoken nati
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.
The Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum is a trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary written by the French Jesuit lexicographer Alexandre de Rhodes after 12 years in Vietnam. It wa
The Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes created the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum.
Title page of the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum. Note the spelling mistake of the word Annamiticum, as it has three ns.