thổ ngữ

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 土語 (“dialect”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰo˧˩ ŋɨ˦ˀ˥]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰow˧˨ ŋɨ˧˨]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰow˨˩˦ ŋɨ˨˩˦]

Noun

thổ ngữ

(linguistics) dialect

Usage notes

This is often to go-to word for "dialect" in scientific papers by Vietnamese linguists.

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Vietnamese nouns without classifiers