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*****Announcement:
The National Library of Vietnam.
On April 11, 2007, the Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the
National Library of Vietnam in Hanoi to create a digital library of the National Library’s
ancient script holdings in Hán and Nôm. This three-year project will open to the world a
4000-item cultural heritage of books, woodblocks, manuscripts, maps, and other
materials on paper. For the first time, anyone with a computer, anywhere in the world,
will be able to access this collection...with a click of mouse. This is a three-year project with an expected completion in 2010. For further information please contact
us at info@nomfoundation.org*****
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Ca Trù Thể Cách (title
in Hán, text in Nôm). Collection of Ca
Trù ceremonial songs |
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Memorandum of Understanding
being signed by NLV Director Phạm Thế
Khang and VNPF representatives Phạm Kiều
Diễm and Ngô Trung Việt.
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For a look at digitized samples
of Hán and Nôm holdings from the National
Library of Vietnam, please click
here.
***** Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư ?
The
"Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư"
is a History of Greater Vietnam of chữ Nôm
ideograms
What
is Nôm? Chữ
Nôm — the ancient script of the Vietnamese language
— was used as the national script for more
than 1,000 years. By the early 20th century
the use of chữ Nôm (script) gave way to a roman-style alphabet known
as chữ Quốc-Ngữ.
Although a vast cultural heritage and history
remains written in chữ Nôm, few Vietnamese
today can read it. For more information, click
here.
What
is the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation? The VNPF
is a non-profit 501(c)3
public charity devoted to preserving old chữ
Nôm texts and providing
chữ Nôm
access to all readers of modern Vietnamese.
All of us working for the Foundation are volunteers.
For more information, click here.
What
is the "Look-Up Tool"? The
"Look-Up tool"
is an electronic dictionary of chữ Nôm
ideograms prepared by the Foundation to date.
It is the first computer accessible dictionary
of chữ Nôm script. Creating
this Nôm / Quốc-Ngữ
/ English dictionary is the main project of
the Foundation. We hope that as you use our
"Look-Up Tool" you will help us to finish
work on our dictionary by making a tax-deductible
donation to our organization. We need your
help to see the project through to completion.
Nôm Dictionaries and
Other Publications: For the first
time a true type font dictionary is available
in Nôm. Giúp Đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt can now be
purchased from our website. We are also offering
a new printing of the rare Taberd dictionary,
Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum first
published in India in 1838.
For more details on both dictionaries, please
go to: "Nôm
Dictionaries".
This website also provides
information about the history of chữ Nôm, other current projects
of the Foundation, upcoming public events
and the goals of the Foundation. To share
your talents as a volunteer or to make a tax-deductible
contribution to the Vietnamese Nôm
Preservation Foundation please contact us
at:
The
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation
229 Beachers Brook Lane
Cary, North Carolina 27511
USA
info@nomfoundation.org
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