Tiếng Việt, văn Việt, người Việt by Cao Xuân Hạo

The five major points that have been discussed throughout this research are (1) argumentation on the Yue elements that had existed prior to the emergence of what was later known as Chinese, (2) analysis of biased views on the Vietnamese historical linguistics shaped by nationalism and politics that make bad academics, (3) shift of focus on the Vietnamese cognates with those of Sino-Tibetan and Chinese languages that match a wide range of basic words believed to be of Mon-Khmer origin, and (4) assertion of dissyllabicity of both Vietnamese and Chinese, and lastly, (5) presentation of the analogical approach as drawn from the recognition of the frequency of their syllabic pairs that helps discover more Sintic-Vietnamese words.Įven though several Sinitic-Vietnamese issues have been addressed under discreet guises of different subject matters since the last century, most specialists of Vietnamese examining the matter of Vietnamese etymology of Chinese origin to date have separated the Sinitic entity from that of the aboriginal Yue and placed them under the scope of Austroasiatic Mon-Khmer, Austro-Thai, Daic-Kaida, Vietic, and Vietmuong, all postulated as having been descended forn a common ancestral linguistic family of Taic (De Lacouperie. What Makes Chinese so Vietnamese? An Introduction to Sinitic-Vietnamese Studies (Ýthức mới về nguồngốc tiếngViệt)

Tiếng Việt, văn Việt, người Việt by Cao Xuân Hạo