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Close, it was actually portuguese missionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet

walthamstow 1y ago
Right, so then it is a transliteration and it is not native to Vietnamese, despite what GP says.
- Loughla 1y ago
  >early 17th century. At what point does something become naturalized? This feels needlessly pedantic.
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- decimalenough 1y ago
  Almost every writing system was imported from somewhere else, including something like half a dozen evolutions of the one we're using now (which was Latin, which was Greek, before that Phoenician, before that Egyptian). What matters is that the Vietnamese use the script to write their own language, which is not the case for (say) romanized Chinese.
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- mFixman 1y ago
  The Latin alphabet is not native to English, and it's a much worse fit for that language that it is for Vietnamese.
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- rdlw 1y ago
  It's not a transliteration. What supposed writing system are Vietnamese originally writing in, before they transfer it to Latin script?
  - walthamstow 1y ago
    Chinese-like characters, which were transliterated by Europeans into Latin. This system was made official by the French rulers of Vietnam.
    - haskellshill 1y ago
      So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.
      - walthamstow 1y ago
        Nope, I didn't say any of that.
- nsonha 1y ago
  it's the only official writing system that we have. The non latin scripts have practically disappeared from modern life. We had centuries of Chinese scripts, which is definitely not native, then a short lived Chinese-like writing system that is the closest thing to "native", (it's not, see "Chinese-like"). Even that was not used as official system for as long as the current latin alphabet.
- haskellshill 1y ago
  That is a really dumb point. Then Finnish has no writing system either, because it was created by a swede in the 16th century. Strange how there exist languages without writing systems, yet people write them?

walthamstow 1y ago

Right, so then it is a transliteration and it is not native to Vietnamese, despite what GP says.

Loughla 1y ago
>early 17th century. At what point does something become naturalized? This feels needlessly pedantic.
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decimalenough 1y ago
Almost every writing system was imported from somewhere else, including something like half a dozen evolutions of the one we're using now (which was Latin, which was Greek, before that Phoenician, before that Egyptian). What matters is that the Vietnamese use the script to write their own language, which is not the case for (say) romanized Chinese.
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mFixman 1y ago
The Latin alphabet is not native to English, and it's a much worse fit for that language that it is for Vietnamese.
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rdlw 1y ago
It's not a transliteration. What supposed writing system are Vietnamese originally writing in, before they transfer it to Latin script?
- walthamstow 1y ago
  Chinese-like characters, which were transliterated by Europeans into Latin. This system was made official by the French rulers of Vietnam.
  - haskellshill 1y ago
    So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.
    - walthamstow 1y ago
      Nope, I didn't say any of that.
nsonha 1y ago
it's the only official writing system that we have. The non latin scripts have practically disappeared from modern life. We had centuries of Chinese scripts, which is definitely not native, then a short lived Chinese-like writing system that is the closest thing to "native", (it's not, see "Chinese-like"). Even that was not used as official system for as long as the current latin alphabet.
haskellshill 1y ago
That is a really dumb point. Then Finnish has no writing system either, because it was created by a swede in the 16th century. Strange how there exist languages without writing systems, yet people write them?