id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7556 Vietnamese literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2086 318 63 By the mid-20th century, virtually all Vietnamese works of literature were composed in quốc ngữ. Works written in chữ nôm a locally invented demotic script based on Chinese characters was developed for writing the spoken Vietnamese language from the 13th Century onwards. Some highly regarded works in Vietnamese literature were written in chữ nôm, including Nguyễn Du's Truyện Kiều, Đoàn Thị Điểm's chữ nôm translation of the poem Chinh Phụ Ngâm Khúc ( ^ George Cœdès The Making of South East Asia 1966Page 87 "No work of literature from the brush of a Vietnamese survives from the period of Chinese rule prior to the rise of the first national dynasties; and from the Dinh, Former Le, and Ly dynasties, all that remains are some poems by Lac Thuan (end of the tenth century), Khuong Viet (same period), and Ly Thuong Kiet (last quarter of the eleventh century). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7556.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7556.txt