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Why American always write Vietnam together not Viet Nam ?

In Viet Nam <---this is how the way we write doesn't matter in English or in Viet, but everytimes my teacher and other people keep write Vietnam at one word. Viet mean Vietnamese people and Nam mean South they are completely different meaning.

Just a question of habit. Look at maps from different countries and you'll see a lot of city names and country names written differently. It was probably written as it was heard on US maps, one word, and that was that.

Edit : to Wire and String, Vietnam uses the latin alphabet. Alexandre de Rhodes translated phonetically Vietnamese during the 17th century and they adopted that as their alphabet. Before that they used chinese characters.

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