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	Vietnamese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnamese is generally said to be part of the Viet-Muong (or Vietic) grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
		In fact, as the vernacular language of Vietnam gradually grew in prestige toward the beginning of the second millennium, the Vietnamese language was written using Chinese characters (see Chữ nôm) adapted to write Vietnamese, in a similar pattern as used in Japan (see kanji), Korea and other countries in the Chinese cultural sphere.
		Vietnamese in the form of chữ nôm was used for administrative purposes during the brief Ho and Tay Son Dynasties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese_language (3476 words)

	Vietnamese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt, less commonly tiếng Việt Nam or Việt ngữ), formerly known as Annamite, is the national and official language of Vietnam.
		In fact, as the vernacular language of Vietnam gradually grew in prestige toward the beginning of the second millennium, the Vietnamese language was written using Chinese characters (see Chu Nom) adapted to write Vietnamese, in a similar pattern as used in Japan (see kanji), Korea and other countries in the Chinese cultural sphere.
		Vietnamese, like many languages in southeast Asia, is an analytic (or isolating) language.
	www.millville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vietnamese_language (2735 words)

	Sound system in Vietnamese
		The Vietnamese language is mainly spoken in current Vietnam, and its speakers accounts for 87% of Vietnam's population, which was reported to have 75 millions in 1995 (Grimes 1996).
		Vietnamese is a isolating language, that is, one in which the words are invariable, and syntactic relationships are shown by word order, just as in the cases of Taiwanese and Chinese.
		Traditionally, Vietnamese dialects were divided by Henri Maspero (1912) into two main groups: 1) the Haut-Annam group, which comprises numerous local dialects of the small villages stretching from the north of Nghe-an province to the south of Tha-thien province.
	www.de-han.org /vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound (959 words)

	Vietnamese language
		Vietnamese is the language spoken by some 77 million people inside and outside Vietnam.
		The origin of the Vietnamese language is the subject of debate among linguists.
		Vietnamese is basically a monosyllabic language having six tones, which give the language a sing-song effect.
	www.vietspring.org /language/intro.html (1316 words)

	Vietnamese language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 68 million people in Vietnam.
		Vietnamese was originally written with a Siniform (Chinese-like) script known as Chữ-nôm or Nôm.
		Vietnamese is a tonal language with 6 tones.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/vietnamese.htm (226 words)

	Learn Vietnamese Language - Free Conversational Vietnamese Lessons Online - Common Vietnamese Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Phrasebase drastically simplifies the language learning process by prioritizing the various components of learning and focusing your study efforts on the areas of greatest importance.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Vietnamese Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/vietnamese.php (1866 words)

	About Vietnamese languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vietnamese language is very plentiful, it has a lot of ways to say with one thing.
		In Vietnamese languages don´t have plural or single word, the pronoun is the same all the time.
		In Vietnamese languages, every word is only one syllable, so the rule of poems often define by word per line, sometimes by group with many lines.
	www.ruthvilmi.net /hut/cybercorner/Vietnamese/VnWeb/About.html (570 words)

	VMA-USA: Hội Y Sĩ Việt Nam tại Hoa Kỳ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vietnamese is a monosyllabic language having - tones.
		Concerning the tones in the Vietnamese language, some authors suggested that Vietnamese was originally and basically a polysyllabic language.
		Vietnamese writers, however, desired a language of their own in which to transcribe the national history and literature.
	vmausa.org /artsculture.htm (1093 words)

	Vietnamese language - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		While Vietnamese was identified as an MK language more than 150 years ago, and there is now a solid body of work demonstrating its historical affinities, many people still resist the notion, believing that its origins lie closer to Thai and/or Chinese.
		The problem is that Vietnamese emerged as a national language under circumstances of foreign domination - in 208 BC Han China made the small Mon-Khmer kingdom then located in the Red River Delta a tribute state, and later in 111 BC invaded, creating the province of "Viet Nam" or "Southern Province".
		Vietnamese is normally described as a 6 tone language, and on this basis it is often compared typologically to Chinese Min dialects and/or Tai languages.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=23634 (2056 words)

	Vietnamese Language
		Although the romanized Vietnamese was the result of international and collective undertaking, Father Alexendre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit priest, has been widely considered as the inventor of Quoc Ngu when he published the Portuguese-Latin-Vietnamese dictionary in 1651.
		The Vietnamese revolutionaries also considered Quoc ngu as a powerful vehicle to erase illiteracy, to educate the mass, and to fight the French in the cultural front.
		Quoc ngu rose from the disgraceful "elective language" under the French domination to be the venerable national language of Vietnam.
	www.vietspring.org /language/modernwriting.html (1494 words)

	Overview of the Vietnamese Language to Help You Learn Vietnamese
		Vietnamese is a member of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.
		Vietnamese is a tonal language, meaning that the tone or pitch used when a word is pronounced helps determine its meaning.
		The use of personal pronouns in Vietnamese is determined by the age, marital status, gender, and social standing of the person you are speaking to, as well as your relationship with that person.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/vietnamese/overview.htm (542 words)

	Vietnamese Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vietnamese is the official language in Vietnam and is spoken by a large Vietnamese community around the world.
		The Vietnamese language is a hybrid of Mon-Khmer, Thai and Chinese elements with many of its basic words derived from the monotonic Mon-Khmer languages.
		Throughout Vietnamese history and up to the present, the Vietnamese grew up speaking the dialect of the region in which they were born.
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	Vietnamese
		The Language Learning Beginner was engineered for the effortless absorption of language fundamentals, focusing on sounds, tones, phonics, alphabets and the basic vocabulary used in everyday conversations.
		The system follows with Language Learning Everyday, the second part of the series, is intended to provide you with maximum exposure to the Vietnamese language.
		Instead, the language is absorbed through a series of self-guided and easy-to-follow lessons that gradually introduce the Vietnamese language with explanations in English.
	lp-group.com /store/vietnamese.html (416 words)

	Vietnamese language -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Mon-Khmer language, the native language of 60–65 million people in Vietnam and a second language for many members of Vietnam's more than 50 minority ethnic groups, with some 2 million speakers outside the country.
		In the 17th century Roman Catholic missionaries introduced a system of writing Vietnamese in the Latin alphabet with diacritics distinguishing vowel qualities and tones, a system that was widely adopted only in the 20th century.
		An analytic language is commonly identified with an isolating language (q.v.), since the two classes of language tend to coincide.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382000 (783 words)

	Vietnamese Children's Books, Vietnamese Desk Top Publishing, Vietnamese Dictionary, Vietnamese Dictionary\|Childrens, ...
		Vietnamese is spoken in Vietnam by about 70 million people.
		So many Chinese words entered the language that Vietnamese was long thought to be related to Chinese.
		The Tale of Kieu, the Vietnamese national poem, was written by Nguyen Du in the early 19th century.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Vietnamese.htm (322 words)

	Hitchhiking Vietnam: Travel Tips
		According to my local library system the Vietnamese language didn't exist, a frustratingly empty space between Urdu and Welsh in the stacks.
		Vietnamese has no use for the letters F, J W and Z. Most letters in the Vietnamese alphabet are pronounced as though they were French.
		Written Vietnamese using the Romanized alphabet is a relatively new innovation.
	www.pbs.org /hitchhikingvietnam/travel/lang.html (1180 words)

	Vietnamese language Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
		Vietnamese (Vietnamese "Tiếng Việt"), a tonal language, is the national and official language of Vietnam.
		Although it contains many vocabulary borrowings from Chinese and was originally written using Chinese characters, it is considered by linguists to be one of the Austroasiatic languages, of which it has the most speakers (the second language being the Khmer language).
		Vietnamese is a monosyllabic language, although many compound words are present.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vietnamese_language.html (640 words)

	Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Viet Nam -- Early History & Legends
		However, the imposition of Chinese culture, customs, language, political institutions, and at times cruel oppression and exploitation of the nation ultimately crystallized the Vietnamese people's fierce desire to be free and independent, at all costs.
		Like the origins of the Vietnamese people and culture, the history of the Vietnamese language is also a mixture of different parts and components.
		This new Roman script, called "quoc ngu" or national language, was spread by later missionaries as a means of converting Viet Nam to Christianity and it quickly replaced the Chinese-based chu nom system as the dominant form of Vietnamese writing.
	www.asian-nation.org /vietnam-history.shtml (1479 words)

	Language Study in Vietnam: Language Schools, Vietnamese International Language Study Programs from GoAbroad.com
		The Vietnamese culture is one of the most special and wonderful in the world.
		By learning the Vietnamese language you will be able to truly experience this fascinating country.
		Hanoi Language and Culture Tours combine daily lessons and short tours to teach Vietnamese in a way that is both fun and effective.
	www.languageschoolsguide.com /Vietnam.cfm (264 words)

	Learn Vietnamese - Vietnamese Books, Courses, and Software
		The goal of this 3 volume course is to take the student to a 3/ 3+ listening comprehension capability by exposing him or her to actual conversations in Vietnamese at an increasing level of difficulty, beginning at a 2 or 2+ level and going on up to the 3 and 3+ level.
		Language Teacher for Windows is a software version of the Language Teacher electronic handheld dictionaries of Ectaco, Inc. You can use it on any personal computer with the Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating system.
		With this series, Vietnamese children will be able to read in English as well as in their native language stories of great personal and cultural interest.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /viet.html (3071 words)

	Golden Key Language Center - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Learn essential Vietnamese for three hours in the morning then go for a delicious lunch to practice your ordering skills.
		We can teach the language areas you need from business to volunteer work, for as long as you need to learn.
		This 16-week advanced Vietnamese language course is designed for students who need to improve their language skills, with an emphasis on speaking and writing.
	www.goldenkey.edu.vn /en (494 words)

	Learn Vietnamese Online - Write or Speak in Vietnamese Language Exchange
		A language exchange complements other forms of learning such as classroom, cultural immersion and multimedia, because you get to practice all that you have learned with native speakers in a safe and supportive environment.
		Language exchange learning is also inexpensive because we provide free tips and conversation lesson plans that allow you to do a language exchange on your own.
		Im vietnamese but i was born in Australia so i speak English along with Vietnamese.
	www.mylanguageexchange.com /Learn/Vietnamese.asp (1006 words)

	Vietnamese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When used as an adjective, Vietnamese refers to anything that originates from Vietnam.
		The Vietnamese language, the most widely spoken member of the Viet-Muong languages
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese (115 words)

	Vietnamese Language Studies: Language Schools, International Language Study Programs from GoAbroad.com
		Founded in 2003, Vietnam Language Centre is a subsidiary of Vietnam Global Network, a Singapore-based consulting firm which promotes and offers assistance in trade and investment, economic and technological co-operation, tourism, education and training in...
		We are a Brussels language school specializing in Dutch, English, French and Spanish.
		Linguaphone Language Programs creates success & confidence in all paths of life by solving the problem of international communication skills in any international language with effective language learning solutions.
	www.languageschoolsguide.com /listings.cfm?fkForeignLang=32 (564 words)

	Vietnamese Translation - Translate Vietnamese Language Translator
		LeoSam Translations's Vietnamese translation teams are professional linguists performing translation from English to Vietnamese and Vietnamese to English for a variety of documents in various industries including:
		However, many Vietnamese commoners were not fully Sinicized, and there were those, such as the Trung Sisters in 39 CE, who resisted the Chinese influences.
		In 1976, Vietnam was officially reunited under the North Vietnamese government as "The Socialist Republic of Vietnam".
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/vietnamese.shtml (988 words)

	Vietnamese Language Aids
		Along with architecture, laws and cuisine, the modern Vietnamese language reflects the influence of people who settled, invaded and colonized Vietnam over the past two thousand years.
		Because of their regional domination for many centuries, the Chinese had a particularly powerful impact on the Vietnamese language, and many words are of Chinese origin.
		Since most Western languages use tone to emphasize an underlying meaning, interpretation, or emotion (e.g., angry, doubtful, sarcastic, flamboyant, flirtatious, hesitant, etc.) tonal languages like Vietnamese are particularly difficult for Westerners to learn.
	www.vietnamonline.com /travel/language.html (512 words)

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