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  2. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese influence on Vietnamese corresponds to various periods when Vietnam was under Chinese rule and subsequent influence after Vietnam became independent. Early linguists thought that this meant the Vietnamese lexicon had only two influxes of Chinese words, one stemming from the period under actual Chinese rule and a second from afterwards.

  3. History of writing in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.

  4. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]

  5. Lê dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese was the predominant writing language in Vietnam throughout the Lê dynasty, although written vernacular Vietnamese using chữ Nôm became increasingly popular in the 17th century. [ 4 ] : 207 To adapt Chinese writings to fit the Vietnamese language, Chinese ideograms were modified to chữ Nôm. [ 121 ]

  6. Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    Up until the early 2010s, Vietnamese trade was heavily dependent on China. Most Chinese-Vietnamese people are from Cantonese background, and can speak Cantonese and Vietnamese, which share many linguistic similarities. [107] Vietnam, one of the Next Eleven countries as of 2005, is regarded as a rising economic power in Southeast Asia. [108]

  7. Alexandre de Rhodes - Wikipedia

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    While in Vietnam, de Rhodes developed an early Vietnamese alphabet based on work by earlier Portuguese missionaries such as Gaspar do Amaral, António Barbosa and Francisco de Pina. De Rhodes compiled a catechism , "Catechismus pro ijs, qui volunt suscipere baptismum in octo dies divisis" , and a trilingual dictionary and grammar, Dictionarium ...

  8. Francisco de Pina - Wikipedia

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    Francisco de Pina compiled a first vocabulary of the Vietnamese language in 1619, and reported to his superiors having composed a treatise on orthography and phonetics in 1622 or 1623. [6] Some scholars [ 1 ] [ 7 ] have argued that Pina is responsible for writing a grammar based on which Honufer Bürgin compiled and edited the text Manuductio ...

  9. Vietnam under Chinese rule - Wikipedia

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    The Sui dynasty reincorporated Vietnam into China following the Sui–Early Lý War. This period saw the entrenchment of mandarin administration in Vietnam. The third period of Chinese rule concluded following the collapse of the Tang dynasty and the subsequent defeat of the Southern Han armada by Ngô Quyền at the Battle of Bạch Đằng.