Talk:Vietnamese alphabet
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Letter names and pronunciation edit
The first table lacks some explanation: 6 columns are labeled 1 Letter, 2 Name (pronounced), 3 Hanoi IPA, 4 Saigon IPA, 5 Name (spelling), 6 IPA My first guess is that 6 is the pronunciation of 5, but how does that relate to 2? Sparafucil (talk) 21:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Insertion of the name "Vietnam" edit
Hello @Laska666:, could you please explain to me why you inserted the term "Vietnam" so often in this edit? Isn't that already assumed? Especially since the contemporary name of the country at the time was Đại Nam and the Nguyễn Dynasty didn't control French Cochinchina at the time meaning that the readers could confusingly read that the Emperors ruled all of what is today called "Vietnam". --Donald Trung (talk) 23:11, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
"Uses the Latin script based on Romance languages" edit
This is a non-sensical construction. The Latin alphabet was developed to write the Latin language by the Romans... From Latin, several neo-Latin or Latinesque languages evolved, which are collectively called Romance languages. So it isn't that the Latin script is based in Romance languages, it's that Romance languages (collective name for all the languages that emerged from Latin) used and use the Roman alphabet, also called the Latin alphabet, since the people were called the Romans, after Rome, and the language is called Latin after Latium.
So what the Portuguese missionary did is adapt the Latin script to the Vietnamese sounds by creating notations, macrons and the like, to indicate different sounds for the letters specific to Vietnamese phonology and morphology. Historiaantiqua (talk) 01:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)