quoc ngu
See also: quốc ngữ
English
Etymology
From Vietnamese quốc ngữ.
Noun
quoc ngu (uncountable)
- The romanized writing system used to write Vietnamese.
- 2003, Thaveeporn Vasavakul, in Brown & Ganguly (eds.), Fighting Words, p. 223:
- Promoters of quoc ngu were Vietnamese intellectuals who were either collaborators or anticolonial revolutionaries.
- 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin 2017, p. 107:
- Students studied French and quoc ngu. Most (not all) agreed that Chinese characters no longer sufficed.
- 2003, Thaveeporn Vasavakul, in Brown & Ganguly (eds.), Fighting Words, p. 223:
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