Chu Nom | Vietnamese Writing System - Encyclopedia Britannica

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use by Nguyen Du

• In Nguyen Du

  …Kim van Kieu, written in chu-nom (southern characters). He is considered by some to be the father of Vietnamese literature.

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use in Austroasiatic languages

• In Austroasiatic languages: Writing systems and texts

  …century ad), a system called Chunom (popular writing) was developed for writing Vietnamese with partly modified Chinese characters. About 1650, Portuguese missionaries devised a systematic spelling for Vietnamese, based on its distinctive sounds (phonemes). It uses the Latin (Roman) alphabet with some additional signs and several accents to mark tones.…

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Vietnamese literature development

• In Vietnam: Literature

  …however, a demotic script called Chu Nom, or “the southern script,” had evolved into a vehicle for writing in vernacular Vietnamese. The Chinese heritage of the elite merged with local oral tradition, producing a truly Vietnamese literature. A distinctively Vietnamese long narrative poem in verse developed, culminating in the masterpiece…

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• In Vietnamese literature

  This demotic writing system, called Chu Nom, or “the southern script,” existed beside Chinese writing into the early 20th century when both Chinese and Chu Nom were supplanted by a Roman alphabetical script, first proposed in 1651 by the Jesuit priest Alexandre de Rhodes. The alphabetical system of writing, called…

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