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Preston is a village in Hickory County, Missouri, United States. The population was 157 at the 2020 census. [4] History. Preston was platted in 1857. [5]
At the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 meeting on April 24, 2007, a revised proposal [7] for the script, now known as Tai Viet, was accepted "as is", with support [13] from TCVN, the Vietnam Quality & Standards Centre. Tai Viet was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2. The Unicode block for Tai Viet is U+AA80–U ...
A post office called Preston was established in 1860, and remained in operation until 1880. [2] The community has the name of an original owner of the site. [3]
In Vietnam they are called Tai Dón or Thái Trắng and are included in the group of the Tái peoples, together with the Thái Đen ("Black Tai"), Thái Đỏ ("Red Tai"), Phu Thai, Tày Thanh and Thái Hàng Tổng. The group of the Tái people is the third largest of the fifty-four ethnic groups recognized by the Vietnamese government.
Like in other Tai societies, the core social units of the Tai Dam, Tai Dón and Tai Daeng were the village (ban) and the chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a feudal lord (chao). Their base of life was wet rice cultivation, which is why the Tai settled in valleys alongside the course of rivers.
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]
Đờn ca tài tử (Chữ Hán: 彈 歌 才子) or nhạc tài tử (樂才子) is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam. Its instrumentation resembles that of the ca Huế style; additionally, modified versions of the European instruments guitar, violin, and steel guitar are used.
Preston Township is an inactive township in Platte County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [ 1 ] Preston Township was erected in 1838, taking its name from Preston Dunlap, a local judge.