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    Vietnamese medical terminology has been influenced by language contact with Chinese, French, and English. The author analyzes how Vietnamese has adapted loanwords from these languages and changed their spellings, pronunciations, and meanings to fit Vietnamese phonology and semantics. He examines over 1,000 medical terms of different origins now used in Vietnamese to demonstrate how it has developed a layered specialized vocabulary through language contact.

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    Building Vietnamese Medical Terminology via Language Contact

    Article  in  Australian Journal of Linguistics · September 2009


    DOI: 10.1080/07268600902823136

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