Vietnamese Punctuation
Vietnamese punctuation (Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: chấm câu) refers to the usage of punctuation marks in Vietnamese texts. Historical punctuation Historically, the Vietnamese language was written using chữ Nôm, a script that incorporated both Chinese characters and locally invented characters to represent native Vietnamese words. This writing system coexisted with Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (Hán văn), which was the primary medium for official documents, scholarly works, and formal communication in Vietnam. Text featured marks referred to as gia điểm (chữ Hán: 加點), these marks were largely based on Chinese practices. * 句 (cú) - a mark that indicates a full stop (。) at the end of a sentence. It is typically a circle or a dot in the bottom-right. * 讀 (đậu) - a mark that indicates a pause (、) similar to a comma. It is typically a dot or a circle in the bottom-right. The usage of these two punctuation marks have some flexibilit ...
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Vietnamese Language
Vietnamese () is an Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic language Speech, spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic languages, Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 86 million people, and as a second language by 11 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of Vietnamese people, ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh), as well as the second language, second or First language, first language for List of ethnic groups in Vietnam, other ethnicities of Vietnam, and used by Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese diaspora in the world. Like many languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is highly analytic language, analytic and is tone (linguistics), tonal. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifier (linguistics), classi ...
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