An alphabetic script, based on Cyrillic, was introduced in 2007.
Uptake of handwriting recognition among users who use alphabetic scripts has been slower.
Since 1957 the language has been written using a Latin-based alphabetic script.
They developed their own form of writing, first utilizing Egyptian hieroglyphs, and later using an alphabetic script with 23 signs.
However, modern Vietnamese is written in alphabetic script.
This allows a single font to represent two alphabetic scripts.
These are written in a smaller size, using an alphabetic or syllabic script.
By the 1930s, alphabetic script was Vietnam's dominant writing system.
It is particularly closely related to Hebrew, and was written in a variety of alphabetic scripts.
No ancient script, alphabetic or not, had pure vowels before the Greeks.