During the 17th century, Roman Catholic missionaries introduced a Latin-based orthography for Vietnamese,Quốc Ngữ(national language),which has been used ever since. Until the early 20th century,Quốc Ngữwas used in parallel withChữ-nôm. Today onlyQuốc Ngữis used. [top]...
in order to describe the Viet-Muong vocabulary. When some Western Catholic missionaries went to Vietnam, they created Latin-based characters to learn the Vietnamese language. The Roman characters then became the national writing system in Vietnam, called Chữ Quốc Ngữ. This explains why...
created around the10th centuryCE, allowed writers to compose in Vietnamese using native characters. When thequốc ngữscript was created in 1631, it was limited primarily to Christian missionaries until the early 20th century. Today, nearly all works of ...