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| | Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia |
 | | Han-gul writes syllabic characters that are regularly composed of elements indicating the phonology of the syllables. |
 | | That they both uses tones to differentiate syllables is a character that Chinese itself may have picked up from Vietnamese's own Austro-Asiatiac language group, or both of them may have gotten it from a neighboring group, the Thai-Lao, where every language is tonal, sometimes with up to 15 tones. |
 | | Several long term effects of the French dominion were a substantial Catholic population, a Francophile educated elite, and the abandonment of Chinese characters for a purely Latinized alphabetic system. |
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