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> I would argue that adopting the Latin alphabets was a great mistake. It basically severe all the young generations from all their historical writings. Also, L
by magnio 3y ago
> I would argue that adopting the Latin alphabets was a great mistake. It basically severe all the young generations from all their historical writings. Also, Latinized Vietnamese scripts is one the most hideous scripts out there.
No thanks. Most historical texts have been transliterated into modern chữ quốc ngữ without much compromise in meaning and literary eloquence. The writing facilitates learning Latin languages so much, and most importantly it has perfect phonemic orthography: there exists a bijection between well-formed words and speech, i.e., spelling bee is not a thing in Vietnamese.
- yorwba 3y agoI don't think it's a bijection for anyone's speech, it's more of a compromise between different varieties with incompatible phoneme inventories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#Hanoi_initials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#Hanoi_ini...
- bugbuddy 3y agoYes, I have to agree. I was so surprised by that bijection claim. It is so outlandish. I mean if you restrict and force everyone to only use the exact phonemes the scripts allow, then of course you will be able to make that claim but it is not possible.