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The French language's presence in Vietnam began in the 18th century when French explorers and merchants began sailing near the Indochina coast. When the French replaced the Portuguese as the primary European power in Southeast Asia in the 1790s by helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty and later colonizing Southern Vietnam, they introduced the French language to locals.
After the partition of Vietnam in 1954, French fell into disuse in North Vietnam, and maintained a high status in South Vietnam. Since the Fall of Saigon in 1975, French has declined in modern Vietnam: in 2018, slightly under 1% of the population was fluent in French. About 0.7% of the population of Vietnam can speak French as of 2014. [111]
In highschools in South Vietnam after 1960 at least in the capital Saigon, very few students took French as the first foreign language. In 5 classes, only 1 class still learn French. Most might understand some french words as they learn French later as second foreign language. DanGong 08:05, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Vietnamese: Austroasiatic: Vietic: 85 million 1 million 86 million Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 83 million <1 million 83 million Tagalog [b] Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: 29 million 54 million 83 million Western Punjabi (excl. Eastern Punjabi) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan — — 82 million Korean: Koreanic — 81 ...
French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
A number of Vietnamese loyal to the colonial government and Vietnamese married to French colonists emigrated to France following Vietnam's independence through the Geneva Accords in 1954. During the Vietnam War , a significant number of students and those involved in commerce from South Vietnam continued to arrive in France.
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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