French was the official language of Vietnam under French colonial rule during the 19th and early 20th centuries. After 1954, French fell into disuse in...

native languages. After French rule ended, the French language was still largely used among the new governments (with the exception of North Vietnam). Today...

census. The French language began its presence in Cambodia in the late 19th century after French explorers and merchants made their way from Vietnam into Cambodia...

into French when referring to native Lao topics such as food, plants, etc. Laos portal French language in Vietnam French language in Cambodia French Laos...

French is an official language in 27 independent nations. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de...

French (français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from...

City. Vietnam has an embassy in Paris. Embassy of France in Hanoi Embassy of Vietnam in Paris French language in Vietnam Vietnamese people in France Les...

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, French: République du Viêt Nam), was a government in Southeast...

royal courtiers in Vietnam and China. This system was then completely overhauled and replaced by a French model system during French colonial times, which...

Vietnam. The French term Montagnard ([mɔ̃.ta.ɲaʁ] ) signifies a mountain dweller, and is a carryover from the French colonial period in Vietnam. In Vietnamese...

the French colonial government, which established the first radio station in Vietnam, Radio Saigon, in the late 1920s.[citation needed] Vietnam's national...

the French Empire reduced Vietnam to a French dependency for nearly a century, followed by an occupation by the Japanese Empire. During the French period...

native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam. Like many languages in Southeast...

French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in...

Anam), or Trung Kỳ (中圻), was a French protectorate encompassing the territory of the Empire of Đại Nam in Central Vietnam. Before the protectorate's establishment...

British/French/Japanese force, and southern control of Vietnam was reasserted by the French colonial empire, leading to the First Indochina War. In July...

choose one of seven languages (English, Russian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German) as their first foreign language. In Vietnam's high school graduation...

Chữ Hán were introduced to Vietnam during the thousand year period of Chinese rule from 111 BC to 939 AD. Texts in Vietnam were written using chữ Hán...

French, an extinct pidgin formerly spoken by non-French-educated Vietnamese French language in Vietnam Franco-Vietnamese relations French people in Vietnam...

Workers' Party of Vietnam, the predecessor of the current Communist Party of Vietnam. Hồ Chí Minh was born in Nghệ An province in the French protectorate of...

in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France...

The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century...

called the American War. Vietnam had been under French control as a part of French Indochina since the mid-19th century. Under French rule, Vietnamese nationalism...

from the Vietnam War. Vietnam portal France portal France–Vietnam relations French Indochina French language in Vietnam Cochinchina Annam (French protectorate)...

(chữ Hán: 東京), or Bắc Kỳ (北圻), was a French protectorate encompassing modern Northern Vietnam. Like the French protectorate of Annam, Tonkin was still...

the Vietnam War in 1975, French has declined heavily in Vietnam from being a government language and primary language of education in South Vietnam[citation...

officially as Kinh), live in the lowlands and speak the Vietnamese language, as opposed to the many ethnic groups of Vietnam who are known to occupy the...

In mid-1940, Nazi Germany rapidly defeated the French Third Republic, and the colonial administration of French Indochina (modern-day Vietnam, Laos and...

part of Vietnam. During World War II, after the fall of France and establishment of Vichy France, the French had lost practical control in French Indochina...

recognized in 1954. A member of the Eastern Bloc, it opposed the French-supported State of Vietnam and later the Western-allied Republic of Vietnam (South...