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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. In traditional performance including Cải lương , Đờn ca tài tử , Hát bội (Tuồng) and some old speakers of Overseas Vietnamese, it is pronounced ...
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 ⓘ)
Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order.. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality is possible, in cases such as divorce, children of a single mother, or if a child didn't want to have the father's surname.
The Cua language (also known as Bòng Mieu) is a Mon–Khmer language spoken in the Quảng Ngãi and Quảng Nam provinces of Vietnam. Cua dialects include Kol (Kor, Cor, Co, Col, Dot, Yot) and Traw (Tràu, Dong). Maier & Burton (1981) is currently the most extensive Cua dictionary to date.
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.