Vietnamese writting system

1. Nguyễn Thị Quế Hương
2. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Huyền
3. Phạm Thị Mỹ Loan
4. Trần Thị Như Thơ
5. Trần Thùy Tiên
6. Phạm Thị Thanh Trang
Instructor: Mr Lê Minh Hà
Group 8
Vietnamese writing system: where from
and how
I. Where did Vietnamese writing systems come from?
1. Switching the national writing system from Chinese
characters
2. Inventions about alphabet’s system of Jesuit
missionaries
II. How was Vietnamese writing system developed ?
1. Chu Viet Co
2. Chu Han
3. Chu Nom
4. Chu Quoc Ngu
III. Summary
I. Where did
Vietnamese
writing system
come from?
Vietnamese writing systems,
which was developed, based on:
Chinese
characters(Hán Nho)
The invention of alphabetic system

of Jesuit missionaries
1. Chinese
characters


Vietnam: colonized around
200 B.C – about 12
centuries.

Chinese used in writing

Vietnamese unwritten.

A massive influence of Chinese
on Vietnamese language and
literature.

A huge proportion of the
modern vocabulary has its
origins in Chinese.
Example:

Bình Ngô đại cáo (chữ Hán:
平吳大誥
)

1788-1802: The Tay Son Dynasty, under Nguyen
Hue Quang Trung

Switched the national writing system from Han

Nho (Chinese character) to the more Vietnamese
writing system of Nom (Vietnamese character).
2. Inventions about alphabet’s
system of Jesuit missionaries

At the beginning of the seventeen century, Jesuit
missionaries devised an alphabetic system for
Vietnamese.

Alexandre de Rhodes (15/3/1591-5/11/1660) and
Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et
Latinum

Introducing a system of Roman writing into
vietnamese language.

To present rhythm, using signs of Greece.

Quoc ngu was affected by portuguese writing:
+ consonant sound:gi, ch,x,nh
+ vowel sound:â,ê,ô
=>
At times a society will change
from one writing to another.
Today the system devised by
the Jesuit is the only one in
use for Vietnamese.

II. How was Vietnamese writing

system developed ?
1.Chu Viet Co
2.Chu Han
3.Chu Nom
4.Chu quoc ngu
1. Chu Viet Co (chu khoa
dau, chu Vua Hung)

According to Ha Van Tan, Le Trong
Khanh, Buu Cam,and Do Quang
Vinh professor

under Hung King, writing symstem
is the same as tadpole shape.
Chu Viet Co was lost after
Hai Ba Trung’s uprising was
failed.
2. Chu Han

For much of Vietnam's
history the official written
language was Classical
Chinese, using, of course,
Chinese characters.