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  2. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Tâi-uân Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn - Wikipedia

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    Tʻ ai 2-wan 1 Tai 2-yü 3 Lo 2-ma 3-tzu 4 P ʻ in 1-in 1 Fang 1-an 4: Tongyong Pinyin: Táiwan Tái-yǔ Luó-mǎ-zìh Pin-yin Fang-àn: MPS2: Táiwān Táiyǔ Luómǎtz̀ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn: IPA [tʰǎɪ.wán tʰǎɪ.ỳ pʰín.ín fáŋ.ân] Hakka; Romanization: Thòi-vàn Thòi-ngî Lò-mâ-sṳ Piang-yîm Fông-on: Yue: Cantonese ...

  4. Vietnamese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Some people pronounce d as [j], and gi as [z] in situations where the distinction is necessary, most people pronounce both as [j]. Historically, /v/ is pronounced [j] in common speech, merging with d and gi. However, it is becoming distinct and pronounced as [v], especially in careful speech or when reading a text.

  5. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)

  6. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, the name may retain an unchanged spelling, but a footnote may appear regarding how to pronounce the name in Vietnamese. For example, in the Harry Potter series of novels , the spelling of names for characters "Marge" and "Filch" remains unchanged, but footnotes exist to help Vietnamese speakers pronounce their names, which are ...

  7. Katu people - Wikipedia

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    Model of a Co Tu tomb. The Vietnamese government's official name for the Katu ethnic group is "Co Tu". Within Vietnam, Katu people are indigenous groups recognized by the Vietnamese government and they almost live in the provinces of Thừa Thiên–Huế, Quảng Nam, and Da Nang city.

  8. Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

  9. Lục bát - Wikipedia

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    Lục bát (Vietnamese: [lʊwk͡p̚˧˨ʔ ʔɓaːt̚˧˦], chữ Hán: 六八) is a traditional Vietnamese verse form – historically first recorded in Chữ Nôm script. . "Lục bát" is Sino-Vietnamese for "six-eight", referring to the alternating lines of six and eight syll