Re: Diacritics in the Vietnamese name "Nguyen"

Fri, 27 May 2005 18:10:35 +0000 (UTC): "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> But I can tell you that
>> Vietnamese has "two layers" of diacritical signs. The "first layer"
>> consists of "umlauted" letters; these are letters from Latin-1,
>> Latin-2, and "o, u with horn".
>
>And it seems to me that the diacritics indicate qualities (e.g. "open"
>vs. "closed") of vowels.

Yes, following the Portuguese system, from which the Vietnamese
spelling was once derived. ^ indicates closedness, ' openness (not
used in Vietnamese, the lack of an accent means the vowel in
relatively open.

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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