09:29 06/06/2012
The history of phonetics, the history of vocabulary, and the history of grammar are three indispensable areas in the study of the history of the Vietnamese language. Regarding the history of Vietnamese phonetics, we have achieved great success with works by Professor Dr. Nguyen Tai Can such as: "Textbook on the History of Vietnamese Phonetics (Draft)" (Hanoi, 1995), "The Origin and Formation Process of Sino-Vietnamese Reading" (Hanoi, 1979, 2000)... Regarding the history of Vietnamese vocabulary, we have the work "History of Vietnamese Vocabulary (1858-1945)" by Professor Dr. Le Quang Thiem (Hanoi, 2003), or it is mentioned in works such as: "Understanding Historical Vietnamese" by Professor Dr. Nguyen Ngoc San (Hanoi, 1993); "Textbook on the History of Vietnamese Language (Draft)" by Professor Dr. Tran Tri Doi (Hanoi, 2005), Lectures on the history of the Vietnamese language (20th century) by Prof. Dr. Dinh Van Duc (Hanoi, 2005)... But the workA brief history of Vietnamese vocabularyThe monograph by Associate Professor Dr. Vu Duc Nghieu, published by Vietnam Education Publishing House in 2011, is the most comprehensive, large-scale, and meticulously researched monograph on this subject.