Query: Chinese/Vietnamese script

[Mark Alves]

David,

Bad news on your "Vietnamese" art purchase.  The art you bought in Vietnam
(must have been during the Pan-Asiatic conference?) looks quite Chinese to
me.  It's definitely got literary Chinese grammatical and basic
vocabulary, NOT Vietnamese, and I don't see any special No^m words that
one would expect.  There is small handful of words I can't readily
identify, but this might be literary Chinese written by a Vietnamese
person.

If you REALLY want to see No^m writing, go to the following website which
contains files that show the famous Tale of Kieu in both Quo^'c Ngu+~ and
original No^m writing.

http://thanglong.ece.jhu.edu/Kieu/kieu.html

Mark