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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese language
Mon-Khmer language, the native language of 60–65 million people in Vietnam and a second language for many members of Vietnam's more than 50 minority ethnic groups, with some 2 million speakers outside the country.

For much of Vietnam's history, Classical Chinese was the dominant literary language, and Chinese vocabulary given a Vietnamese pronunciation ("Sino-Vietnamese") remains a significant part of the language's lexicon. By the 13th century Chinese characters were adapted to write native Vietnamese words. In the 17th century Roman Catholic missionaries introduced a system of writing Vietnamese in the Latin alphabet with diacritics distinguishing vowel qualities and tones, a system that was widely adopted only in the 20th century.

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      official language of Vietnam, spoken in the early 21st century by more than 70 million people. It belongs to the Viet-Muong subbranch of the Vietic branch of the Mon-Khmer (Mon-Khmer languages) family, which is itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. Except for a group of divergent rural dialects (dialect) spoken between Hue and Vinh, most of the dialects of Vietnamese differ from each other to about the same degree as do the dialects of English in the United States. The standard language is based on the speech of educated people living in and around Hanoi. A large proportion of the vocabulary of Vietnamese has been borrowed from Chinese, and the influence of Tai languages is also evident. See Austroasiatic languages.

      Characteristics of Vietnamese include the use of tones to distinguish words with identical consonant and vowel sequences, the use of word order to express the syntactic relations of words to each other, and the use of modifiers rather than affixes to express the tense and voice of verb forms.

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Фильмы

  • An Undeclared War. A Vietnamese Diary., 1969 — A film about American agression in Vietnam, about heroic struggle of Vietnamese people, the help of the USSR for the fighting Vietnam.
  • Ezhenie Kotton., 1973 — Film is about the life and activity of a public figure, laureate of the International Leninist Prize “For strengthening of the peace between nations”, the first President of the International Democratic Women Organization Eugenie Cotton.
  • The Symphony of Peace., 1981 — About the I Moscow Festival of Symphonic Music.