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VNPF: Chu Nom Vietnamese English Electronic Dictionary
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Excerpted from the website:
- The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation was founded in 1999 as a public charity devoted to preserving 1000 years of writing in Chữ Nôm, the Chinese-like script that Vietnamese used to record their own language and its vast heritage of poetry, history, medicine, and religion. Today, that entire literary culture is about to go extinct. Out of 80 million Vietnamese, less than 100 scholars worldwide can read Chữ Nôm. The publication of Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương (Copper Canyon, 2000) offered a reversal of this cultural loss. Using cutting-edge computer technology developed by experts who would later start the Foundation, Nôm was printed for the first time in true type fonts. This first, landmark publication and printing of Nôm via computer technology opened up the possibility of unlocking centuries of ancient Nôm writing by accessing it and displaying it through the computer keyboard.
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