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I've been doing some work parsing Vietnamese text, which has the opposite problem. Compound words (which is most of the vocabulary) are broken up into their co
by simplicio 6y ago
I've been doing some work parsing Vietnamese text, which has the opposite problem. Compound words (which is most of the vocabulary) are broken up into their components by spaces, indistinquishable from the boundaries between words.
- enos 6y agoIs that why the name of the country is sometimes spelled with a space, "Viet nam"?
- freddie_mercury 6y agoYes, that's how it is written in Vietnamese. To oversimplify: Vietnamese words are a collection of single syllables that are always separated by a space when writing. "Viet Nam" is also, actually, the "official" English way to write it. (Check how the UN puts it on all their stuff.) However, most Europeans don't do that in their languages, so it usually gets written as Vietnam even by Vietnamese when they're writing European languages.