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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by madhadron on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:45AM (#22867382)
Esperanto, no, but there were several attempts at an alphabet. They all foundered because "Chinese" is actually a language family as diverse as the Romance languages, but that use Mandarin in ideograms as their writing system.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by billfruit on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:21PM (#22868671)
Vietnamese seems fine using the Latin script.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by madhadron on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:11PM (#22869391)
Vietnamese is one language. Imagine that French and Italian decided to agree on a writing system but insisted that the word for "dog" had to be spelled the same way in both.
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Re:Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet by Koshkin on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:05PM (#22874069)
Just like in Chinese languages/dialects.
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