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2 days ago · Vietnamese language, official language of Vietnam, spoken in the early 21st century by more than 70 million people. It belongs to the Viet-Muong subbranch of the Vietic branch of the Mon-Khmer family, which is itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. Except for a group of divergent rural dialects.
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May 6, 2024 · Unlike many Western languages, where tone is primarily used for emphasis or emotional expression, in Vietnamese, tones are lexical, meaning that a change in tone can completely alter the meaning of a word. The language boasts six tones, each denoted by diacritical marks: Sắc – high-rising tone (accent acute)
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4 days ago · There has been an obvious increase in Vietnamese language courses opened for foreigners in Vietnam, by both private language centers and public higher education institutions (Nhân Dân, 2008). This surging demand for Vietnamese language education is considered a result of a significant rise in students’ mobility, as well as the rise of ...
May 18, 2024 · As the national language, Vietnamese is spoken throughout Vietnam by ethnic Vietnamese and by Vietnam's many minorities. Vietnamese is also the native language of the Gin minority group in southern Guangxi Province in China. [7] A significant number of native speakers also reside in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.
21 hours ago · Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam .
4 days ago · Drawing on Gal and Irvine’s (), (Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life.Cambridge University Press, 2019) concept of linguistic differentiation, this chapter examines if and how teachers, principals and stakeholders at Vietnamese community language schools (CLSs) in Australia were engaged in linguistic differentiation and the extent to which their engagement influenced ...
That is, ethnic minority students encounter schooling difficulties due to their disadvantages in Vietnamese, the national language and also the language of the ethnic majority in Vietnam. This chapter reports part of the findings of a project that explored schooling opportunities for ethnic minority students in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
