Talk:Vietnamese alphabet#Ambiguity

The first table lacks some explanation: 6 columns are labeled 1 Letter, 2 Name (pronounced), 3 Hanoi IPA, 4 Saigon IPA, 5 Name (spelling), 6 IPA

My first guess is that 6 is the pronunciation of 5, but how does that relate to 2? Sparafucil (talk) 21:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello {{Ping|Laska666}}, could you please explain to me why you inserted the term "Vietnam" so often in [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1064931595 this edit]? Isn't that already assumed? Especially since the contemporary name of the country at the time was Đại Nam and the Nguyễn Dynasty didn't control French Cochinchina at the time meaning that the readers could confusingly read that the Emperors ruled all of what is today called "Vietnam". --Donald Trung (talk) 23:11, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

This is a non-sensical construction. The Latin alphabet was developed to write the Latin language by the Romans... From Latin, several neo-Latin or Latinesque languages evolved, which are collectively called Romance languages. So it isn't that the Latin script is based in Romance languages, it's that Romance languages (collective name for all the languages that emerged from Latin) used and use the Roman alphabet, also called the Latin alphabet, since the people were called the Romans, after Rome, and the language is called Latin after Latium.

So what the Portuguese missionary did is adapt the Latin script to the Vietnamese sounds by creating notations, macrons and the like, to indicate different sounds for the letters specific to Vietnamese phonology and morphology. Historiaantiqua (talk) 01:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

If Khai Dinh did abolish the use of Chinese characters why was there continued legal documents like degrees and birth certificates issued with Chu Han late as the 1930s? 2001:569:5A42:BA00:442E:1AA6:34BE:F7B1 (talk) 20:52, 31 May 2025 (UTC)