Vietnam

Japanese: Vietnamuong
Vietnam

…The only language that is clearly related to Vietnamese today is Muong, the language of the Muong people scattered in the mountainous areas from the north to the center of the country. Muong is of great value in the study of Vietnamese history, as it retains initial consonants that have been lost in present-day Vietnamese, and the two are sometimes collectively called Vietnamoong or Viêt-Muong. A grammatical feature is that modifiers are placed after the word they are modified, but quantifiers are placed before the noun. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Vietnamuong" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…現在,ベトナム語と同系であることが明らかなのは,北部から中部にかけての山間地帯に散在するムオン族の言語ムオン語Muongである。今日のベトナム語が失った語頭の子音群を残しているなど,ムオン語はベトナム語史研究上の価値が大で,両者を併せてベトナムオン語Vietnamuongあるいはベト・ムオン語Viêt‐Muongと呼ぶこともある。 文法上の特色としては,修飾語が被修飾語の後に置かれることがあげられるが,量数詞は名詞の前に置かれる。…

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