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Vietnamese terms of reference may imply the social relationship between the speaker and the person being referred to, differences in age, and even the attitude of the speaker toward that person. Thus a speaker must carefully assess these factors to decide the appropriate term.
' Military of and for the people of Vietnam ' [12]), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Việt Nam, lit. 'Military of Vietnam'), the People's Army ( Vietnamese : Quân đội Nhân dân ) or colloquially the Troops ( Bộ đội [ʔɓo˧˨ʔ ʔɗoj˧˨ʔ] ), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic ...
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
The People's Army of Vietnam (alternatively Vietnam People's Army; Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam) is the mainline military force of Vietnam. [1] [2] The PAVN includes: the Vietnam People's Ground Force, (Special Forces of Vietnam), the Vietnam People's Navy (including Naval Infantry (Vietnam), Naval Special Operation Force (Vietnam) and Naval Air Force (Vietnam)), the Vietnam ...
Battalia: an army or a subcomponent of an army such as a battalion in battle array (common military parlance in the 17th century). Blockade: a ring of naval vessels surrounding a specific port or even an entire nation. The goal is to halt the movement of goods which could help the blockaded nation's war effort. Booby trap
Liberation Army of Viet Minh in Cochinchina joined with National Guard 1946–48. National Guard was named the Vietnamese National Army (1946) and was referred to as the Vietnamese People's Army, since 1950, led by Communist Party. The Liberation League
Others consider the Viet Cong, or "VC" to primarily refer to the armed elements. [2] The term PAVN (People's Army of Vietnam), identifies regular troops of the North Vietnamese Army or NVA. Collectively, both the southern guerrillas and the regulars from the north were part of PAVN. [3]
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 ...