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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| Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52448 |