hey guy i was just wondering on something... when i go into a vietnamese store i've seem many video opera show... but why do they alway dress in chinese ancient clothes... i have this question to ask ever since i was a little girl... i watch them whenever i go to my aunt house... gosh, i don't even understand it just like to watch something different when i was small.

Hey VN and VC!!! My sister wants to see you all reply in that request above!!


RockHeart,



:genius:

Maybe it's chinese series that dubbed in Viet

Hey idiot, shut up.

because those were once our ancient clothes too!

yup... VN has been a vessel of China numerous times during history... before the french came in and changed the language, vietnamese used to be in a character format (also known as "viet han") - but the French came in and changed the system over to anglo letters.

It's called Chu Nom



English sites:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chunom.htm
http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/writviet.html

Vietnamese sites:

http://zdfree.free.fr/diendan/archuni/u099cnom.html
http://cafe68t.multimania.com/content/unicode/chunom.html

Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation (includes a facility for looking up Chu Nôm characters):

http://www.nomfoundation.org/

kool

OH..I'd always wonder that to and now I know, cool!

good for u bud !

Are you trying to be funny?? Because, I was being serious.

Oy Vey.