Questions tagged [vietnamese]
A Vietic language spoken in Vietnam.
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Why is 'Trà với đường vui lòng cho!' ungrammatical in Vietnamese?
I’ve seen
Vui lòng cho trà với đường!
used to politely request tea with sugar. However, when I try moving 'vui lòng cho'
(“please”) to the end, as in 'Trà với đường vui lòng cho', I was told it is ...
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How do I draw the Vietnamese ơ and ư characters?
How do I draw the Vietnamese ơ and ư characters? (Surprisingly, I can’t find this information via Google like I can for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.)
Specifically, how do I draw the horn ...
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In languages with "small words", how do they conceptualize of these units?
The languages I am thinking of are Vietnamese and Tibetan, but perhaps there are others. And I know that technically these two are classified on the opposite of the spectrum (analytic vs. ...
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What are these variants (Nguyễn and Nguyến) of Vietnamese last name Nguyen?
I saw these two variants (Nguyễn and Nguyến) of spelling of Nguyen. Which of the two variants are the most original and correct Vietnamese spelling of Nguyen? Are both legitimate representation of ...
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Is there an example of ʔɓ/ʔɗ sounds in contrast to ʔb/ʔd in Vietnamese?
I'm unable to distinguish between the preglottalized implosives ɓ/ɗ and the preglottalized explosives b/d in Vietnamese. Is there any audio sample of these sounds that would allow me to make out the ...
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How does 小 get the Sino-Vietnamse as "tiểu"?
I'm trying to re-construct the Sino-Vietnamese word of 小 (tiểu) from fanqie method mentioned here.
At first, I looked up fanqie of the word from this dictionary.
小 has fanqie 私兆 which is "tư triệu" ...
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Did the Portuguese influence how days of the week are named in Vietnamese and Chinese?
The Portuguese were some of the first colonizers / missionaries in the Far East. In the case of Vietnam, they created the first phonetic transcription of the language. Interestingly, nowadays the ...
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Does Vietnamese mười reflects the Thai/Lao/Khmer uu sound?
When I was in Vietnam I tried to pronounce the word mười (10) with the Thai/Lao/Khmer uu sound:
Thai: ◌ู
Lao:
Khmer (ou): ូ
Khmer (uə): ួ
I recognized that sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn'...
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Is there a theory challenging the "strict" distinction between Thai and Vietnamese?
I understand Thai and Lao and all their dialects, and Vietnamese and all its dialects to be of totally different language evolutionary families (Tai Kra-Dai and Astroasiatic).
I can speak and read ...
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Are there any purely monosyllabic languages in use today?
All languages in the world that I know of use words with more than one syllable. Are there any where all words have strictly one syllable? That would mean that there is just one vocal cluster per word,...
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Vietnamese Spelling Irregularities
The Case with Mandarin
I’m quite familiar with Chinese Pinyin, and I know it has some irregularities with how it represents it phonemes:
The use of <y>/<w>/<yu> when <i>/<u&...
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Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
I know both languages to a certain extent. By no means I am fluent; reading is still a challenge, especially in Chinese, thus I am not allowed to firmly stand by my opinion.
I often ponder on the big ...
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Lexical similarity among languages used in Southeast Asia
Among many languages used in Southeast Asia (especially I want to talk about Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Thai), is there any study about which pair of languages is close to each other in ...
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Why does gang-nam and viet-nam both contain nam meaning south when one is in Korean the other Vietnamese?
Does anyone know why there is a character that is common to both the Koreans and the Vietnamese?
Are there any other examples of these kind of similarity?
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Can the Chinese script be used to record non-Chinese languages?
I know of at least 3 countries in the Sinosphere that have historically used the Chinese script (or scripts derived from it) - Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
So how did it work? Did they use it to read ...
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Hang Sơn Đoòng — the syllable Đoòng in Vietnamese orthography
There's a cave in Vietnam which has been newly opened to tourism called Hang Sơn Đoòng (English Wikipedia article here).
My question is about the syllable in the name of the cave which is represented ...
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