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Lí 2SG 去 khì go 買 bué buy 有 ū have 錶仔 pió-á watch 無？ --bô? no 汝 去 買 有 錶仔 無？ Lí khì bué ū pió-á --bô? 2SG go buy have watch no "Did you go to buy a watch?" As in many east Asian languages, classifiers are required when using numerals, demonstratives and similar quantifiers. Choice of grammatical function words also varies significantly among the ...
Nguyễn Văn Huy (1975) is the only published resource contain data of Quang Lam. The Ethnologue lists Quang Lam as an alternate name for Kháng. [1] Quang Lam speakers are officially classified as ethnic Khang people. [2] Tạ (2021) refers the language as Kháng Quảng Lâm. [3]
Vietnamese speak date in the format "day month year". Each month's name is just the ordinal of that month appended after the word tháng , which means "month". Traditional Vietnamese, however, assigns other names to some months; these names are mostly used in the lunar calendar and in poetry.
Phan Thanh Giản was one of the foremost mandarins of the Nguyễn court. He played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Saigon with the French in 1862. [2] [3] The negotiations led to the formal cession of Vietnamese territory that the French Expeditionary Corps had occupied in 1861 (the first parts of the future colony of Cochinchina): the provinces of Già Dinh, Mỹ Tho, Biên Hòa ...
Dai Zhuang or Thu Lao is a Tai language spoken in Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. In China is it spoken in Yanshan, Wenshan, Maguan, Malipo, Guangnan counties of Wenshan Prefecture . It is also spoken in Honghe Prefecture.
Southern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/gú; lit. 'Southern Min language'), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: [mìn.nǎn]) or Banlam (Min Nan Chinese pronunciation:), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially ...
Philippine Hokkien [f] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca [8] [9] within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority ...
Glossolalia is a borrowing of the γλωσσολαλία (glossolalía), which is a compound of the γλῶσσα (glossa) ' tongue, language ' [7] and λαλέω (laleō) ' to speak, talk, chat, prattle, make a sound '. [8] The Greek expression (in various forms) appears in the New Testament in the books of Acts and First Corinthians.