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The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

Hanoi: At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal ...

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own ...

In Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen practices calligraphy, writing Vietnam's modern script—a legacy of French rule.

HANOI — At a calligraphy ... the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam’s unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule. The history of romanized Vietnamese ...