Re: How close is Vietnamese to Mandarin or Cantonese?
<ekkilu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dylan Sung wrote:
>> I'm a Hakka Chinese speaker, and my mother recalls in her youth, in
>> the
>> 1930's that she had a cousin who went to live in Vietnam, or as she
>> called
>> it, On-nam (ie. Annam).
>
> Cultural tidbit: please refrain from using the word "Annam", it's
> considered derogatory in Vietnamese.
That might be as it is, but you still encounter text which were written in
the last century which are referred to, like Haudricourt's studies.
Dyl.
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