description: An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed and glossed.
language: English
title: Vietnamese
titlecomplete: Vietnamese (London Oriental and African Language Library)
ratings_count: 3
series: London Oriental and African Language Library
publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company