Vietnamese writing systems

language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc)

modern writing system of Latin script for writting Vietnamese language

former logographic writing system for the Vietnamese language using Han ideographs

VISCII is an unofficially defined modified ASCII character encoding for using the Vietnamese language with computers. It should not be confused with the similarly named officially registered VSCII encoding. VISCII keeps the 95 printable characters of ASCII unmodified, but it replaces 6 of the 33 control characters with printable characters. It adds 128 precomposed characters. Unicode and the Windows-1258 code page are now used for virtually all Vietnamese computer data, but legacy VSCII and VISCII files may need conversion.

school in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1907–1908

history of writing systems used to write Vietnamese language