Vietnamese Abugida [VAB]
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Human/humanoid
About Vietnamese Abugida
Vietnamese is the only language of the East Asia which doesn't use its own writing system. Instead, as the only country in that region, it uses a modified latin alphabet. Khmer, Lao, Thai, and many other languages use an abugida (or alphasyllabary) as their writing system. I wanted to complete this and am now creating an abugida for the Vietnamese language.
Therefore this isn't a conlang as usual, but rather an extension of Vietnamese which only comprises of the script, while any other part of Vietnamese remains unchanged. But it isn't just a syllabary version of the current latin alphabet, but rather a newly-build, phonetic way of writing.
Therefore this isn't a conlang as usual, but rather an extension of Vietnamese which only comprises of the script, while any other part of Vietnamese remains unchanged. But it isn't just a syllabary version of the current latin alphabet, but rather a newly-build, phonetic way of writing.
Sample of Vietnamese Abugida[view] ťêˊzâjˊlaˎmôt˵kûnˊšacˊ,vaˎňyŋ˶ŋŷjˎxôŋˉdiˉzuˉlic˵ciˬdok˵môt˵čaŋˉ.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.[view all texts]
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.[view all texts]
Latest vocabulary
Language family relationships
Language treeAustroasiatic
⤷ Proto-Austroasiatic
⤷ Mon-Khmer
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Vietnamese
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Vietnamese Abugida
⤷ Proto-Austroasiatic
⤷ Mon-Khmer
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Vietnamese⤷
Vietnamese Abugida[view] About AustroasiaticA large language family of Southeast Asia, ranging from India to southeastern China. Major languages in this family include Vietnamese, Khmer, and Mon (hence the common name of the family, Mon-Khmer). Khasi, Santali, Ho, Mundari, and Wa have state-le...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t tʰ | ʈ1 | c | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z2 | ʂ3 | x | ɣ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | [ʈ͡ʂ]4 | [t͡ɕ]5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j6 | w | ||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||||||||||||||
- only in southern dialect
- only in northern dialect
- only in southern dialect
- allophone of /ʈ/
- allophone of /c/
- only in southern dialect
- only in southern dialect
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Mid | ə ə̆ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | ä ä̆ | |||||
| Polyphthongs | ɨə | iə | uə |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vietnamese Abugida. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Vietnamese AbugidaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| a/ä/ | â/ə/ | ă/ä̆/ | b/ɓ/ | č/ʈ/1, [ʈ͡ʂ] | c/c/, [t͡ɕ] | d/ɗ/ | ê/e/ | e/ɛ/ |
| f/f/ | g/ɣ/ | h/h/ | i/i/ | î/iə/ | j/j/2 | k/k/ | l/l/ | m/m/ |
| ň/ɲ/ | n/n/ | o/ɔ/ | ŏ/ə̆/ | ô/o/ | p/p/ | q/ʔ/ | r/r/3 | s/s/ |
| š/ʂ/4 | ť/tʰ/ | t/t/ | û/uə/ | u/u/ | v/v/ | w/w/ | x/x/ | ŷ/ɨə/ |
| y/ɨ/ | z/z/5, /j/6 | ŋ/ŋ/ | ˉ ŋaŋˉ /̄/ | ˊ săkˊ /̌/ | ˎ hwiənˎ /᷆/ | ˬ hojˬ /ʱ᷉/ | ˵ năŋ˵ /̂ˀ/ | ˶ ŋa˶ /̌ˀ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- only in southern dialect
- only in southern dialect
- only in southern dialect
- only in southern dialect
- only in northern dialect
- only in southern dialect
Latest 8 related articles listed below.
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