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  2. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Following the defeat of Southern Vietnam in 1975 by Northern Vietnam in the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese language within Vietnam has gradually shifted towards the Northern dialect. [48] Hanoi, the largest city in Northern Vietnam was made the capital of Vietnam in 1976. A study stated that "The gap in vocabulary use between speakers in North and ...

  3. List of endangered languages in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Definitely endangered - "children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home" Severely endangered - "language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves"

  4. Hoa people - Wikipedia

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    A shipwrecked Chinese blown to Vietnam by the wind, Pan Dinggui in his book "Annan ji you" said that the Trinh restored the Le dynasty to power after Vietnam was struck by disease, thunder and winds when the Le was dethroned when they initially could not find Le and Tran dynasty royals to restore to the throne when he was in Vietnam in 1688.

  5. First language - Wikipedia

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    A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth [1] or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers to the language of one's ethnic group rather than the individual's actual first language. Generally, to state ...

  6. National language - Wikipedia

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    However, it is not the mother tongue of the population. Therefore, it is not often used to communicate between Tunisian people, instead Tunisian Arabic plays these roles and is the national language of Tunisia. [49] Furthermore, even without an official status, French is also known by 63.6% of the population.

  7. Austroasiatic languages - Wikipedia

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    Vietic: 10 languages of Vietnam and Laos, including Muong and Vietnamese, which has the most speakers of any Austroasiatic language. Katuic: 19 languages of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Khmero-Bahnaric languages Bahnaric: 40 languages of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Khmeric languages The Khmer dialects of Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

  8. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    all languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal [68] Netherlands: 1 Dutch: Frisian (in the province Friesland) English Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba) Papiamento (in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire) Dutch Low Saxon; Dutch Sign Language; Limburgish; Sinte Romani; Yiddish; English New Zealand: 3 English; Māori language; New Zealand Sign Language ...

  9. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central/Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. The major families in terms of numbers are Indo-European, specifically Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages in South Asia; and Sino-Tibetan in East Asia.