Modern Vietnamese writing, developed by French colonists, looks much like English or French. But for centuries, Vietnamese was written in a different script, based on Chinese-style characters. Now, ...

My preceding post was about a collection of poems by an 18th-century Vietnamese concubine, Ho Xuan Huong, who wrote in an ideographic script a thousand years old that’s now nearly extinct in Vietnam.

Hanoi (AsiaNews) – In 2019 the Vietnamese Church celebrates 400 years since the first romanisation of the local language. The adoption of the modern Vietnamese alphabet (Chữ Quốc Ngữ) opened the ...

Vietnamese Catholics and intellectuals have commended foreign missionaries and ancestors for developing the national writing system that helped spread Catholicism around the country. Some 200 people, ...

The defunct Thanh Chiem Palace (1602-1883) is seen as a cradle of romanised Vietnamese script, and the place was linked with Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) – the founder of the ...

Thanh Chiem bastion in Quang Nam province has been officially recognized as a national relic. It’s considered the second capital of Vietnam after Hue and the political, military, economic and cultural ...

The inauguration of a monument honouring Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) – the founder of the modern writing system of the Romanised Vietnamese script – will be held in Guarda City ...

The calligraphy exhibition Thực Học (Practical Learning) presents 100 calligraphy works in Hán (Chinese script), Nôm (Vietnamese ideographic script) and quốc ngữ (national romanised Vietnamese script) ...