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  2. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    November 2002; 21 years ago. ( 2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

  3. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm is the logographic writing system of the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Chinese writing system but adds a large number of new characters to make it fit the Vietnamese language. Common historical terms for chữ Nôm were Quốc Âm ( 國音, 'national sound') and Quốc ngữ ( 國語, 'national language').

  4. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam .

  5. Rạch Giá - Wikipedia

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    2,359/km 2 (6,110/sq mi) Rạch Giá ( listen ⓘ) is a provincial city and the capital city of Kiên Giang province, Vietnam. It is located on the Eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, 250 kilometres (160 mi) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. East of city, it borders Tân Hiệp and Châu Thành town, the Gulf of Thailand is to the West and ...

  6. Bánh chưng - Wikipedia

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    Bánh chưng (IPA: [ʔɓajŋ̟˧˦ t͡ɕɨŋ˧˧]) is a traditional Vietnamese food which is made from glutinous rice, mung beans, pork and other ingredients. Its origin is told by the legend of Lang Liêu, a prince of the last king of the Sixth Hùng Dynasty, who became the successor thanks to his creation of bánh chưng and bánh giầy, which symbolized, respectively, the earth and the sky.

  7. Bánh tráng - Wikipedia

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    Bánh tráng. Southern Vietnamese term for rice wrappers, which are also commonly used overseas. These banh trang wrappers are made from a mixture of rice flour with tapioca starch, water and salt. [4] These wrappers are thin and light in texture. They are often used for chả giò and gỏi cuốn.

  8. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    2011 (republished) Media type. 4 Hardback Volumes. Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam ( lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished ...

  9. Hòn non bộ - Wikipedia

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    Hòn non bộ ( chữ Nôm: 𡉕𡽫部) is the Vietnamese art of making miniature landscapes, imitating the scenery of the islands, mountains and surrounding environment as found in nature. It is a particular local development of the Chinese art of penzai, as was bonsai in Japan . The phrase Hòn non bộ comes from the Vietnamese language ...