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The share of Chinese loans in Vietnamese is quite large and doesn't differ much from Japanese or Korean, though estimates vary depending on whether you're looki
by yorwba 3y ago
The share of Chinese loans in Vietnamese is quite large and doesn't differ much from Japanese or Korean, though estimates vary depending on whether you're looking at everyday speech or the number of dictionary entries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary
- karmasimida 3y agoThe list in it is super interesting to me. 进士/举人/客栈，such words are only used in period drama now in China, not as everyday vocabulary.
- numpad0 3y agoAs seen on that page, they use too much of invented or re-assigned characters that maps to native Vietnamese vocabulary. Sentence structures also differs too much. As implied in a sibling comment by karmasimida, we CJK speakers have a bit of mutual text-only intelligibility across CJK - speeches are all steelpans unless you have few years of training + auditory cortex power cycling, just writing - and that completely breaks apart in Vietnamese, in the way very reminiscent of looking at Cyrillic script.