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Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
It is a singular and plural noun (e.g., Japanese, French, etc.). Very little is known about the native Hmong name as it is not mentioned in Chinese historical records, since the Han identified the Hmong as Miao. The meaning of it is debatable and no one is sure of its origin, although it can be traced back to several provinces in China.
The Mảng (Chinese: 莽人; pinyin: Mángrén; Vietnamese: Mảng) are an ethnic group living primarily in Lai Châu, northwestern Vietnam, where they are one of Vietnams' 54 officially recognized ethnic groups.
Huang (Chinese: 黃/皇) used in Mandarin; Hwang (Korean: 황; Hanja: 黃/皇) used in Korean; Huỳnh or Hoàng used in Vietnamese. Huỳnh is the cognate adopted in Southern and most parts of Central Vietnam because of a naming taboo decree banning the surname Hoàng, due to similarity between the surname and the name of Lord Nguyễn Hoàng.
During prehistoric times in the Red River Delta basin, there were two main language families present. One being the Austroasiatic family from which the native modern Vietnamese language is descended, and the other being influenced by the Sino-Tibetan culture and language by the Chinese-speaking Han immigrants into Vietnam. [3]
Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety of reasons, such as preservation of a unique identity, pride in their cultural ancestry, desire for easy communication with Chinese-speaking family members, and the perception that Chinese will be a useful language as China's economic strength increases.
dog cǎp chase ta-ɲo ACC -cat ɵɔ cǎp ta-ɲo dog chase ACC-cat "The dog chases the cat." ʔu 1SG ʔo give lam rice ʔæŋ-ciəj DAT -chicken ʔu ʔo lam ʔæŋ-ciəj 1SG give rice DAT-chicken "I give rice to the chicken." References ^ Mảng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ a b Gao (2003), p. 1 ^ "Người Mảng". Trang tin điện tử của Ủy ban Dân tộc (in ...
Mong or Meng (Chinese: 蒙; pinyin: Méng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese surname.It is a xing (姓) (ancestral surname).The surname is typically romanised as Meng in Mandarin and Mong or Mung in Cantonese.