Annamese

//ˌæn.əˈmiz// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A native or inhabitant of Annam (or Vietnam). countable
  2. 2
    the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam wordnet
  3. 3
    a native or inhabitant of Vietnam wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to Annam. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A former name of the Vietnamese language. obsolete, uncountable

    "[…]These are bilingual dictionaries of major civilised languages which have technical literature and technical vocabulary. For example, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian in the West and Arabic, Persian, Chinese and Japanese in the East. We have not ignored smaller languages like Finnish in Europe and Annamese in Asia."

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"[…]These are bilingual dictionaries of major civilised languages which have technical literature and technical vocabulary. For example, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian in the West and Arabic, Persian, Chinese and Japanese in the East. We have not ignored smaller languages like Finnish in Europe and Annamese in Asia."

Etymology

From Annam + -ese.

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