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Almost every writing system was imported from somewhere else, including something like half a dozen evolutions of the one we're using now (which was Latin, which was Greek, before that Phoenician, before that Egyptian).

What matters is that the Vietnamese use the script to write their own language, which is not the case for (say) romanized Chinese.



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