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Ởnh·Vú or People's language is a member of the Chamic language family spoken in parts of Vietnam and China. For most of the language's history it was spoken orally. In order to separate the written form of the language from Chinese, Chữ Nôm characters came to be used. Despite overwhelmingly not being pronounced like in Vietnamese, the use of Chữ Nôm helped distinguish Ởnh·Vú words from Chinese words as well as eliminating a huge number of would be homonyms
Phonology/Romanization:
Ởnh·Vú is romanized with a modified/simplified form of the Middle Vietnamese alphabet. In addition to being used for languages written in the Latin alphabet, the romanization system also functions as Ởnh·Vú's most common set of ruby characters
Initials:
/m n/ <m n>
/p t k g/ <p t c/k/q g/gh>
/ɓ ɗ/ <b đ>
/ʈ͡ʂ ɖ͡ʐ t͡ɕ d͡ʑ/ <tr đr ch gi>
/ʂ~s ʐ~z ɕ/ <s r x>
/β ð ɣ/ <ꞗ d kh>
/w l j/ <v l y>
Finals:
/m n ŋ/ <m n nh>
/p̚ t̚ c̚ k̚/ <p t ch c>
/ɻ/ <r>
Vowels:
/i ɨ u/ <i ư u>
/e ə o/ <e ơ o>
/a/ <a>
/wo/ <uo>
All vowels can additionally be followed by /j/ (written as <y> syllable finally and <i> elsewhere) and /w/ (written as <o>)
Tones:
/˧ ˧˩ ˧˥ ˧˩˧ ˦˧˥/ <a à á ả ã>
Allotony:
/˧/ is pronounced as [˦] after /˥/ and /˦˧˥/
/˧/ is pronounced as [˨˧] after /˧˩/
/˧˩/ is pronounced as [˩] after /˧˩/
/˧˩/ is pronounced as [˨˩] after /˧˩˧/
/˧˥/ is pronounced as [˥] after /˧˥/ and /˦˧˥/
/˧˥/ is pronounced as [˦˥] after /˧˩˧/
/˧˩˧/ is pronounced as [˨˩˧] after /˧/
Numbers:
The go-to example for the different uses of Chữ Nôm in Ởnh·Vú is the number system which uses Chữ Nôm for native numbers and traditional characters for those imported from Chinese. Chinese numbers occur in a large number of often math based counters.
Traditional Numbers:
1: 𠬠 (Sa)
2: 𠄩 (Đư)
3: 𠀧 (Sỏ)
4: 𦊚 (Pãt)
5: 𠄼 (Ley)
6: 𦒹 (Nam)
7: 𦉱 (Tủ)
8: 𠔭 (Sưinh)
9: 𠃩 (Lảnh)
10: 𨑮 (Sủ)
100: 𤾓 (Rãch)
1000: 𠦳扜 (Ri·Ꞗo) (Only ever used for one thousand. Chinese numbers used for all numbers above that)
Chinese Numbers:
1: 一/壹 (It)
2: 二/貳 (Nì)
3: 三/參 (Sam)
4: 四 (Sì)
5: 五 (Vó)
6: 六 (Luc)
7: 七 (Tít)
8: 八 (Bet)
9: 九 (Cú)
10: 十/拾 (Gip)
100: 百 (Bac)
1000: 千 (Tén)
10,000: 萬 (Mừn)
100 Million: 億 (Ưc)
One Trillion: 兆 (Đrớ)