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  2. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Writing Sino-Vietnamese words with the Vietnamese alphabet causes some confusion about the origins of some terms, due to the large number of homophones in Sino-Vietnamese. For example, both 明 (bright) and 冥 (dark) are read as minh , thus the word "minh" has two contradictory meanings: bright and dark (although the "dark" meaning is now ...

  3. La Gi - Wikipedia

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    Its name La Gi or Lagi [laː˧˧:ɣi˧˧] in Kinh language was originated from ladik [1] [laː˧˧:ɗɨt˧˥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s. Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day

  4. 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. [6]

  5. Vietnamese pronouns - Wikipedia

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    True pronouns are categorized into two classes depending on if they can be preceded by the plural marker chúng, bọn, or các.Like other Asian pronominal systems, Vietnamese pronouns indicate the social status between speakers and others in the conversation in addition to grammatical person and number.

  6. Vietnamese grammar - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese is an analytic language, meaning it conveys grammatical information primarily through combinations of words as opposed to suffixes.The basic word order is subject-verb-object (SVO), but utterances may be restructured so as to be topic-prominent.

  7. How ‘big back,’ ‘fatty,’ and other ‘fatphobic’ slang is ...

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    This ‘big back’ business is fatphobia. My 6 year old coming home and asking if she has ‘the biggest back’ because she wanted extra crackers at snack time is NOT cute or funny.

  8. Traditional Vietnamese medicine - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Vietnamese medicine (Y học Cổ truyền Việt Nam), also known as Southern Herbology (Thuốc Nam) is a traditional medicine practiced by Vietnamese people.

  9. Causative - Wikipedia

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    The normal English causative verb [3] or control verb used in periphrasis is make rather than cause. Linguistic terms are traditionally given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some additional meaning (it implies direct causation) and is less common ...