Vietnamese was transcribed into the Roman alphabet by Bishop Alexandre de Rhodes, who added a series of diacritical marks to the alphabet to indicate the five tones that characterize the Vietnamese ...

Việt Nam ơi!!! blogs about the Vietnamese phonetic alphabet system used to spell out words on the radio or telephone. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how ...

The history of romanized Vietnamese, or “Quoc Ngu”, links ... The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil servants who helped them govern Indochina, explained Khanh ...