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Yeah 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 pronun
by realusername 3y ago
Yeah 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.