Vietnamese Initial Consonant Clusters in Quốc Ngữ Documents from the 17th to Early 19th Centuries

Vietnamese Initial Consonant Clusters in Quốc Ngữ Documents from the 17th to Early 19th Centuries

This paper presents a few claims based on documents written in the Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ Roman orthography. The fact that Vietnamese once had initial consonant clusters bl, ml, mnh (/mɲ/) and tl is well known. Early Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ spellings indicate that the change of mnh (/mɲ/) to nh (/ɲ/) w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: VU Duc Nghieu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii Press 2019-05-01
Series:Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Subjects:
Vietnamese
Vietic
Quốc Ngữ
historical phonology
orthography
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52448

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