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Over half of the ethnic Chinese population in Vietnam speaks Cantonese as a native language and the variety also serves as a lingua franca between the different Chinese dialect groups. [36] Many speakers reflect their exposure to Vietnamese with a Vietnamese accent or a tendency to code-switch between Cantonese and Vietnamese.
The Hoa people, also known as Vietnamese Chinese (Vietnamese: Người Hoa, Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén; Cantonese Yale: Wàhyàhn or Chinese: 唐人; Jyutping: tong4 jan4; Cantonese Yale: Tòhngyàhn) are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry.
Cantonese, Taishanese and other Yue languages (native languages), Standard Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino and Indonesian, Hong Kong English, Macau Portuguese Religion Predominantly Chinese folk religions (which include Confucianism , Taoism , ancestral worship ) and Mahayana Buddhism
Stanford still offers more than 40 languages, from Afrikaans to Vietnamese. “The Cantonese-language program was never eliminated,” Leighton said. “This decision to reduce courses, for ...
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 ...
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [6] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [7]
The largest group is the Hoa, numbering almost a million individuals and have historically been influential in Vietnamese society and economy. They are largely concentrated in major cities of the former South Vietnam (especially in Ho Chi Minh City) and largely speak Cantonese, with Teochew being found among a significant minority. [15]
Cantonese is the biggest Sinitic language which Taiwan does not recognize as a national language. There are a reported 87,719 Hongkongers residing in Taiwan as of the early 2010s; [ 26 ] however, it is likely that this number has increased following emigration following political tension from the Anti-Extradition Ordinance Amendment Bill ...