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As mentioned above, the only cluster in Vietnamese is /Cw/ in which /C/ is a consonant. Southern dialects do not retain this cluster. But this cluster tends to be retained by many young urban people in southern Vietnam, especially in Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding areas. The cluster /Cw/ is reduced to one element.
The ancestor of the Vietic languages was atonal and sesquisyllabic, featured many consonant clusters, and made use of affixes. [9] The northern Vietic varieties ancestral to Vietnamese and Muong have long been in contact with Tai languages and Chinese as part of a zone of convergence known as the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. [10]
Some pairs of characters are used to represent the consonant clusters and polysyllabic that were present in Old Vietnamese. After the 15th century, polysyllabicity and inflections had completely died out in the Vietnamese language, giving a development phase for chữ Nôm. [42]
A page from Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh 佛說大報父母恩重經 which shows text in Literary Chinese alongside an earlier form of chữ Nôm representing Old Vietnamese pronunciation. Some double phonetic characters (chữ kép) are used to represent the consonant clusters in Old Vietnamese.
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. ... and featured many consonant clusters.
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.
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Word initial consonant clusters will be kept in writing, but a short /a/ might be introduced in reading if the consonant cluster doesn't adhere to the phonetic rules of Thai. Word final consonant clusters will ususally be reduced to a single stop consonant in pronounciation, as Thai does not allow syllable final consonant clusters.