Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
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sino-vietnamese-vocabulary-173-15750939
title:
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
text:
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary 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 and technical vocabulary. Together with Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese vocabularies, Sino-Vietnamese has been used in the reconstruction of the sound categories of Middle Chinese. Samuel Martin grouped the three together as "Sino-xenic". There is
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description:
Morphemes borrowed into Vietnamese from Literary Chinese
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary
date created:
2006-01-04T20:08:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T17:37:25Z
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