Re: How close is Vietnamese to Mandarin or Cantonese?

Lee Sau Dan wrote: 
Further, that paragraph  didn't explain why "typhoon" is  spelt with a
final "n",  not "ng" if it  were to meant to  transcribe the Cantonese
pronunciation [tOi22 fUN55].

I think that part's easily explained. We don't have /UN/ or /uN/ in English, so it would be natural for anglicization of a foreign word containing either to involve transformation into /un/ (and not /Un/ since we don't have final /Un/ either).
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