Annamese
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Origin of Annamese
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Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer—the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism.
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Probably no man in the U. S. is as familiar as he with events in the Hedjaz or in Iraq, with the doings of Afghans or Parsees or the Annamese.
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Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians.
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The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls.
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Thence the difficulty of substituting our phonetic alphabet for the ideographic characters of the Chinese, as well as for the ideophonetic writing partly borrowed by the Annamese from the letters of the celestial empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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