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More than 80% of the population speaks Vietnamese or Kinh/Viet, the national language. Many ethnic minority people speak Kinh and their own native language.
Three scripts have influenced Viet Nams history:
- Chinese Han ideograms were used until the beginning of the 20th century
- The Nom script, created between the 11th and 14th centuries, was derived from Han script to transcribe the popular national language
- European missionaries in the 17th century first developed Quoc ngu, the Romanised transcription of the Vietnamese language used to this day.
Modern literature before 1945
The first real flowering of modern Vietnamese literature took place in the north under the influence of the romantic styles, themes and techniques of French literature. Amongst the earliest attempts at Vietnamese creative writing in Quốc ngữ was a collection ...
Read more...Classical Han Chinese (chữ Han)
During the 1,000 years of Chinese rule over what is now northern Việt Nam, chữ Han (classical Han Chinese, also known as chữ nho) became firmly established as the language of the Vietnamese royal court and would remain so until as late as 1918 when the ...
Read more...Modern literature 1945-1975
Prior to 1945 comparatively few southern writers had achieved recognition or success, but against a background of relative stability, prosperity and artistic freedom in the late 1950s and early 1960s a small but active literary scene began to emerge in South Việt ...
Read more...Chữ nom
From an early period a special ideographic script known as chữ nom was also devised for transcribing spoken Vietnamese. According to annals dating from the late 13th century, the poets Nguyễn Thuyen and Nguyễn Sĩ Cố were the first to write in ...
Read more...Quốc ngữ
Modern Vietnamese literature finds its roots during the French colonial period, when popularisation of the romanised script quốc ngữ finally allowed it to break free from the restrictions of classical Chinese literature. Originally devised by French Jesuit ...
Read more...Modern literature since 1975
More images With national integrity finally secured in 1975, it was not long before the literary community began to explore in their work themes which had largely been set aside during the long struggle for self determination. This trend ...
Read more...Ethnic minority literature
Most ethnic minority literature remains oral in nature, although a number of collections have been published over the years. Perhaps best known are the Black Thai epics Xong chụ xon xao and Khun Lu Nang Ủa, part of a valuable Thai literary legacy which ...
Read more...Folk literature
Since coming into existence, Vietnamese literature has been rich in folklore and proverbs; tales that have been handed down from generation to generation, gradually becoming valuable treasures. The Muong ethnic group in northern Trung Bo has an epic poem called de dat, ...
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