r/ChuNom
Bugan, an almost forgotten indigenous language of Yunnan, China
u/fries-eggpanvol8647 — 3 days ago
Trying to find the glyph origins of this Vietnamese syllabary from 1929
EDIT: reupload cuz reddit absolutely killed the image quality.
Shoutouts to u/Brightsea129 on their prev post on Vi Huyên Ðắc's script he published in his 1929 book, "Viet script, One way to write Vietnamese" (Viêt tu, Môt lôi viêt tiêng An-Nam).
I wanted to try to pinpoint the Han character-origins of the glyphs found in this syllabary, but got stumped halfway thru. If anyone has any idea for the rest of the glyphs I was unsure of, please, feel free to lemme know in the comments or DM me, this project has been hounding me for the last couple of months lol.
u/ZoeyNoey — 6 days ago
▲ 19 r/ChuNom
Vietnamese glossing of 鹿鳴 1
With pleased sounds the deer call to one another,
Eating the celery of the fields.
I have here admirable guests;
The lutes are struck, and the organ is blown [for them]; -
The organ is blown till its tongues are all moving.
The baskets of offerings [also] are presented to them.
The men love me,
And will show me the perfect path.
Vietnamese glossing (訓讀), albeit rare, uses ソ and ン to reverse the order of the characters similar to Japanese 返り点. However the marks are used on the right side. There is also a 丿 like mark that denotes that 之 should not move. The く tells the reader that the Chinese character should be repeated and not translated, etc.
u/HyKNH — 14 days ago