French was the official language of Vietnam under French colonial rule from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. After 1954, French fell into disuse in...

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...

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...

Switzerland In many countries, French is used as a co-official language alongside one or more other languages. List of countries where French is a co-official...

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...

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

langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced...

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

Vietnam News Agency (VNA; Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam (TTXVN), French: L’Agence vietnamienne d’information, lit. 'Vietnamese Information Agency'...

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

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...

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

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

(tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

the Fatherland'), was designed in 1940 and used during an uprising against the French and Japanese in Southern Vietnam that year. The red background symbolizes...

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

are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as officially recognized by the Vietnamese government. Each ethnicity has their own unique language, traditions, and culture...

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

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...

the official script of Vietnam until French colonization in the 20th century, despite the rise in vernacular chữ Nôm literature in the aftermath of the...

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...

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