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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by pas on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:19AM (#22864306)
Why does it make latin glyphs pointless? Isn't it better to have a closer match to the phonemes that one actually has to say than having ideoglyphs? (Which are harder to learn, because writing and speaking becomes only loosely coupled.)
Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by robocat on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:02AM (#22864576)
These are the written vowels:

Aa Ăă Ââ Ee Êê Ii Oo Ôô Ơơ Uu Ưư Yy

On each of which you can add 5 different tone marks: https://vietnamesetypography.com/alphabet/

Plus there are diphthongs and triphthongs (look at the zero coda and off glide coda columns): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#ref_Notes

Disclaimer: I know stuff all about Tiếng Việt, but it seemed really hard to learn how to hear and say the sounds when I tried for a few days with private lessons. Using so many diacritics modifies the Latin alphabet so much that it becomes something else...

Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by Symbiote on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:55AM (#22865249)
It would be interesting to compare Khmer script with Vietnamese.

The Khmer alphabet seems to have 33 consonant letters, 15 vowels, 16 "dependent vowels" (which look to attach like an accent to a consonant), and 12 diacritics.

Since I don't have any knowledge of either language, I don't know if this is better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_script

Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by pas on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:32AM (#22887345)
Thanks! Since there are already many different languages using latin script I'm not surprised that this very heavily annotated version too differs. (I'm Hungarian, so maybe that's why I prefer explicit markings for pronunciation.)