Dear colleagues,
I have drafted the following
questions for Vietnamese language experts after our Tuesday
meeting:
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The Unicode CLDR (Common Locale
Data Repository) lists the following letters for Vietnamese:
a
à ả ã á ạ ă ằ ẳ ẵ ắ ặ â ầ ẩ ẫ ấ ậ b c d đ e è ẻ ẽ é ẹ ê ề ể
ễ ế ệ f g h i ì ỉ ĩ í ị j k l m n o ò ỏ õ ó ọ ô ồ ổ ỗ ố ộ ơ
ờ ở ỡ ớ ợ p q r s t u ù ủ ũ ú ụ ư ừ ử ữ ứ ự v w x y ỳ ỷ ỹ ý
ỵ z
(See
www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/summary/vi.html
.)
1.
Are any other letters in use?
2.
Some of the diacritics are used to
indicate tone – is Vietnamese ever written with a simpler
set of Latin letters without tone marks? (For example,
Pinyin Běijīng is
sometimes written as Beijing, without tone marks.)
3.
Are some of the letters listed not
in use?
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I would really welcome your
improvements.
Regards,
Chris.
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Research Associate in
Linguistic Computing, Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL,
Gower St, London WC1E 6BT Tel +44 20 7679 1599 (int 31599)
www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/chrisdillon