Nôm vocabulary

Study of the Vietnamese language has seldom paid attention to the characteristics and origin of Vietnamese Personal Pronouns. This possibly stemmed from continuing debate as to the origin of the Vietnamese language itself, and the apparent lack of a reliable theoretical framework for the etymology of Vietnamese lexicon, apart from conventional distinction between Sino-Vietnamese words and pure Nôm vocabulary.

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