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The Mon–Burmese script ( Burmese: မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ; Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ, listen ⓘ; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia. It is the basis of the alphabets ...
- left-to-right
- 7th century – present
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- Abugida
Chữ nôm or the former Vietnamese script and its past Contributions to Vietnamese literature. Nguyễn Khắc-Kham. Chữ nôm (Chữ 'script,' and nôm < nam 'south, Vietnamese') is the name given by the Vietnamese to one of their two former systems of writing created by the modification of the Chinese characters. It was called so, as ...
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Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds.
- 13th century – 20th century
- Vietnamese
- Top-to-bottom, columns from right to left (traditional), Left-to-right (modern)
- Logographic
Famous Vietnamese writers who wrote in the Chữ-nôm script include Emperor Trần Nhân Tông (1258-1308); the poets Nguyễn Thuyên and Nguyễn Sĩ Cố (1230-1312) and Nguyễn Trãi (1380-1442); and Hồ Quý Ly (1336-1407) who translated Chinese textbooks into Vietnamese and wrote royal proclamations and ordinances. When western ...
Later, Mường was found to be more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established, also including Thavung, Chut, Cuoi, etc. The term "Vietic" was proposed by Hayes (1992), who proposed to redefine Viet–Muong as referring to a subbranch of Vietic containing only Vietnamese and ...
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Number 101. March, 2000. Scripts, Signs, and Swords: the Việt Peoples and the Origins of Nôm. by C. Michele Thompson. Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA vmair@sas.upenn.edu www.sino-platonic.org.
After then large numbers of people migrated to the area from India and China, and Mon became marginalized. Mon was first written during the 6th century AD in two different scripts: one derived from the Grantha script, and one derived from the Kadamba or Grantha script. The Mon script first appeared in the Mayzedi inscriptions in 1113. Mon script
