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About me and my language

My name is Trang Hung Son (Sôn Huøng Trang). I am Khmer-Vietnamese. I am a Ford Foundation scholar studying in Hawaii as I pursue a graduate degree in the MATESL (Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language) program at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii in the USA. Before I came to Hawaii, I taught English at a high school for Khmer ethnic minority students in Tra Vinh province in southern Vietnam. Through this website, I would like to share some information about the Vietnamese language, including orthography, morphology, and metaphors in songs and proverbs.  I am also contributing to the development of a Vietnamese dictionary.

Contact me at: 1711 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii, HI 96848 USA

                         Home phone: (808) 944-6234

                         Email: TTVEBH@GMAIL.COM

The Vietnamese language belongs to the Mon-Khmer sub-division of the Austro-Asiatic family (Campbell, 2000, p. 297; Comrie, 1987, p. 777).  It is the national language of Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia. According to World Factbook, the population of Vietnam in July 2008 was approximately 86,116,560, of which the Vietnamese majority make up 82.6 %, and the rest consists of 53 ethnic minorities, such as the Tay, the Nung, the Thai, the Muong, the Khmer.