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The conquest of the ancient nation of Champa and the conquest of the Mekong Delta led to an expansion of the Vietnamese people and language, with distinctive local variations emerging. After France invaded Vietnam in the late 19th century, French gradually replaced Literary Chinese as the official language in education and government.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
The French language, a legacy of colonial rule, is spoken by many educated Vietnamese as a second language, especially among those educated in the former South Vietnam, where it was a principal language in administration, education and commerce. [391]
Pakistan (with English as co-official language) India (with 21 other regional languages) ... Vietnamese: Guangxi Province, China (some regional status)
The French language's presence in Vietnam began in the 18th century when French explorers and merchants began sailing near the Indochina coast. When the French replaced the Portuguese as the primary European power in Southeast Asia in the 1790s by helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty and later colonizing Southern Vietnam, they introduced the French language to locals.
Ta'Oi language; Tai Daeng language; Tai Dam language; Tai Dón language; Tai Lue language; Tai Muong Vat language; Tai Pao language; Tai Thanh language; Tai Viet script; Tai Yo language; Takua language; Tariang language; Tây Bồi Pidgin French; Tày language; Tày Tac language; Telue language; Todrah language; Tsʻün-Lao language
A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business. Regional language A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state.
Vietnamese is the official language of the country. It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family, which also includes languages such as Khmer and Mon. Vietnamese was spoken by 85–90 million people in Vietnam at the 1999 census.