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2010-09-11, 01:19 AM
Cancambo Wrote:Why is it that Vietnamese seems to have a very Roman-like alphabet when it is an Asian language? I was going to originally ask why translations of some Asian languages with non-Roman alphabets produce Romanized forms that are spelt far from how they sound (i.e. Nguyen being pronounced "win") but then I looked at Wikipedia and I found that Vietnamese looks very Roman, just with a lot of accents and stuff.

A French Jesuit missionary invented the Vietnamese writing system we use today. It imports the sounds in the omnomnom language into Romanized characters. The Omnomnom language is Chinese based, but we have our own words for things.
Like the sound "Hỏa" in Chinese is fire, but in Vietnamese the sound is "Lửa".
Basically it is an international presentation of our old gibberish language, created upon trial and error efforts to communicate with us by Alexander de Rhodes.

sicnarf Wrote:Om nom nom nom

Hahaha I see what you did there. Biggrin
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Nguyen - by Rob - 2010-09-10, 09:47 AM
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