Language overview (Vietnamese)

Running Head : Language Overview

Language Overview (Vietnamese

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Introduction

Vietnam is a hot country located in Southeast Asia . The Vietnamese folks belong to an ethnic group that came from the present southern China and northern Vietnam . They went southward towards the east of the Indochinese Peninsula (Nationmaster , n .d ) Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam . The Vietnamese people , who make up 86 of Vietnam 's million Vietnamese who live in foreign countries . It is also spoken as a second language by some ethnic

minorities of Vietnam (Nationmaster n .d ) In all , around 68 million people speak Vietnamese as their first language whereas another 12 million communicate in Vietnamese as a second language (Languages of Asia , n .d ) Other than in Vietnam Vietnamese is also spoken in some parts of Australia , Cambodia Canada , China , Cfte d 'Ivoire , Finland , France , Germany , Laos Martinique , Netherlands , New Caledonia , Norway , Philippines , Senegal Thailand , United Kingdom , USA , Vanuatu (Languages of Asia , n .d

Language family

A language family is a set of interconnected languages that have originated from a common proto-language . The Austro-Asiatic languages are a major language family used in India and Southeast Asia . Mon-Khmer is the autochthonous dialect of Indo-China and Viet-Muong comes under the classification of the Mon-Khmer subfamily of the Austro-Asiatic family (Nationmaster , n .d

Vietnamese is classified in the Viet-Muong group of the Mon-Khmer branch that belongs to the Austro-Asiatic language family (Nguyen et al , n .d ) Vietnamese also shares resemblance with languages that come under the classification of the Tai family . The Vietnamese language comprises of many Sino-Vietnamese words . Furthermore , Vietnamese was influenced in terms of vocabulary and syntax by the French language (Nguyen et al , n .d

History

ch ? nho (scholar 's characters : used to write Literary Chinese

2 . A complicated variant form known as ch ? nom (southern /vernacular characters ) with characters not found in the Chinese character set (Vietnamese 101 , n .d

Ch ? nho was more common than ch ? nom as ch ? nom was used only by members of the educated elite . It must be noted that only those who can read ch nho can read ch ? nom . Currently , of these scripts is common in Vietnam , and ch ? nom is near-extinct (Vietnamese 101 , n .d

Conclusion Worldw ? Official ? More than 1 ,000 ,000 speakers ? More than 100 ,000 speakers (Nationmaster , n .d

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Languages of Asia (n .d

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Marr , David G (1984 ) Vietnamese Tradition on Trial , 1920-1945 .University of California Press

Nationmaster (n .d

Retrieved May 23 , 2007 , from

HYPERLINK "http /www .nationmaster .com /encyclopedia /Vietnamese-language http /www .nationmaster .com /encyclopedia /Vietnamese-language

Nguyen , Thanh Bon , Nguyen , Thi Minh Huyen , Romary , Laurent , Vu , Xuan Luong (n .d ) Lexical s for Vietnamese language processing

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HYPERLINK "http /www .vietlex .com /research /ALRWS2004-007 .pdf http /www .vietlex .com /research...