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  2. Mano (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    President Rodrigo Duterte extends his hand to skater Margielyn Didal who showed a gesture of respect to the President on September 12, 2018. Mano is an "honouring-gesture" used in Filipino culture performed as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder. Similar to hand-kissing, the person giving the greeting bows towards the hand of the elder and presses ...

  3. Vietnamese people in France - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese people in France (Vietnamese: Người Pháp gốc Việt; French: Diaspora vietnamienne en France) consist of people of full or partial Vietnamese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to France. Their population was about 400,000 as of 2017, making them one of the largest Asian communities in the country.

  4. Overseas Vietnamese - Wikipedia

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    The number of ethnic Vietnamese living in France is estimated to be about 350,000 as of 2014. [111] France was the first Western country where Vietnamese migrants settled due to the colonization of Vietnam by France that began in the late 1850s. [112] The colonial period saw a significant representation of Vietnamese students in France, as well ...

  5. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of Vietnamese exonyms for various ... There are a few country names borrowed from French and Russian as Vietnam's history is closely linked to France ...

  6. Vietnamese community in Paris - Wikipedia

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    Numerous Vietnamese cultural institutions and Buddhist temples are also found in the 17th arrondissement. In regards to the suburbs of Paris, the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine, Lognes, Torcy, Bussy-Saint-Georges and Les Essarts-le-Roi contain the highest concentrations of Vietnamese in France, with a share of over 20% of each commune's population. [6]

  7. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    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. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]

  8. French Vietnamese - Wikipedia

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    French Vietnamese or Vietnamese French may refer to: Of or relating to any of the subdivisions of Vietnam during the period of French colonialism Annam; Tonkin; Cochinchina; Tây Bồi Pidgin French, an extinct pidgin formerly spoken by non-French-educated Vietnamese; French language in Vietnam; Franco-Vietnamese relations; French people in Vietnam

  9. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.