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More than 80% of the population speaks Vietnamese or Kinh/Viet Nam, the natinal language. Many ethnic minority people speak Kinh and their own native language. Three scripts have influenced Viet Nam’s 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 transcrible the popupar national language * European missionaries in the 17th century first developed quoc ngu, the Romanised transcription of the Vietnamese language used to this day. |
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