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Very interesting. For someone who knows (some) Chinese but no Vietnamese there seems to be a lot of commonality so it's very interesting that Vietnamese does no
by mytailorisrich 3y ago
Very interesting. For someone who knows (some) Chinese but no Vietnamese there seems to be a lot of commonality so it's very interesting that Vietnamese does not have all those homophones.
I guess that explains a lot of the appeal of Latin characters, then.
- realusername 3y agoYeah that kind of make sense. The Chinese writing didn't fit very well to Vietnamese in the first place. Vietnamese is a language with an highly complex pronunciation so some kind of writing which maps as close to possible to this complex pronunciation fits better. Pronuncing and recognizing the pronounciation properly is the hardest task in Vietnamese and you really want the writing to help you with that. And since more complex words are usually 2 syllable components of simpler ones, the Latin script actually helps you to guess the meaning of the new word as well, similarly as a Chinese character I guess.