Nom Script
OriginVietnam
Earliest1200
TypeLogographic
About Nom Script
The Vietnamese adaptation of Chinese characters for writing native words. Up to 20,000 characters were devised, making it far harder than Chinese itself. Used for a thousand years of poetry and state documents alongside classical Chinese. The epic Tale of Kieu was composed in it. Almost entirely replaced by the Latin-based quoc ngu alphabet by the 1920s.
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