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Quoc-ngu was devised in the mid 17th century by Portuguese missionaries who modified the Roman alphabet with accents and signs to suit the particular consonants, vowels, and tones of Vietnamese. It was further modified by a French missionary, Alexandre de Rhodes.
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The Vietnamese alphabet ( Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'script of the National language', IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ kuək̚˧˦ ŋɨ˦ˀ˥]) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages [6] originally developed by Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585–1625). [1]
Paulus Cua was a Vietnamese scholar who contributed to the popular usage of Quoc-ngu, a romanized system of transcribing the Vietnamese language devised by mid-17th-century Portuguese missionaries and further modified by Alexandre de Rhodes, a 17th-century French missionary. Cua helped make
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Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam .
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At this time there were briefly four competing writing systems in Vietnam; chữ Hán, chữ Nôm, chữ Quốc ngữ, and French. [49] Although Gia Định Báo, the first Vietnamese newspaper in chữ Quốc ngữ, was founded in 1865, Vietnamese nationalists continued to use chữ Nôm until after the First World War .
Alexandre Rhodes and Nguyen Van Vinh. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591 - 1660) Nguyen Van Vinh (1882 - 1936) Chinese letters were used in Vietnam for a thousand-year period until the begining of 20th century.
Mar 2, 2022 · Quốc Ngữ: The Shackle that Became the Sword. The hotly debated history of literacy, and thus, dissidence, in Vietnam is bittersweet and complex enough to fill the pages of several tomes. In this essay, I offer the highlights of generations of Vietnamese activism to evolve and shape the most basic tool of advocacy—the written language.
