Literary Chinese in Vietnam

rdf:langString Literary Chinese in Vietnam

rdf:langString Literary Chinese in Vietnamese called Văn ngôn (Chữ Hán: 文言) or Cổ văn (古文), Hán văn (漢文) this was the medium of all formal writing in Vietnam for almost all of the history of the country up to the early 20th century, when it was replaced by vernacular writing using the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet in Vietnam. The language was the same as that used in China, as well as in Korea Gugyeol and in Japan Kanbun, and used the same standard Chinese characters. It was used for official business, historical annals, fiction, verse, scholarship and even for declarations of Vietnamese determination to resist Chinese rule.