Editing Vietnamese language (section)

==Classification==
[[File:Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula (1906) (14781207342).jpg|thumb|right|A 1906 analysis map of [[Austroasiatic languages]] (previously known as Mon-Annam languages) by British linguists [[Walter William Skeat]] and [[Charles Otto Blagden]]. Vietnamese is shown as Annamese.]]
Early [[Comparative method|linguistic work]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ([[James Richardson Logan|Logan]] 1852, [[Charles James Forbes Smith-Forbes|Forbes]] 1881, [[Friedrich Müller (linguist)|Müller]] 1888, [[Ernst Kuhn|Kuhn]] 1889, [[Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)|Schmidt]] 1905, [[Jean Przyluski|Przyluski]] 1924, and [[Paul K. Benedict|Benedict]] 1942)<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Mon–Khmer languages: The Vietic branch
  | publisher = SEAlang Projects
  | url = http://sealang.net/mk/vietic-intro.htm
  | access-date =November 8, 2006
}}</ref> classified Vietnamese as belonging to the [[Mon–Khmer languages|Mon–Khmer]] branch of the [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic language family]] (which also includes the [[Khmer language|Khmer]] language spoken in [[Cambodia]], as well as various smaller and/or [[regional language]]s, such as the [[Munda languages|Munda]] and [[Khasi language|Khasi]] languages spoken in eastern India, and others in [[Laos]], southern China and parts of Thailand). In 1850, British lawyer [[James Richardson Logan]] detected striking similarities between the [[Korku language]] in [[Central India]] and Vietnamese. He suggested that [[Korku language|Korku]], [[Mon language|Mon]], and Vietnamese were part of what he termed "Mon–Annam languages" in a paper published in 1856. Later, in 1920, French-Polish linguist [[Jean Przyluski]] found that [[Muong language|Mường]] is more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established, also including [[Thavung language|Thavung]], [[Chut language|Chut]], [[Cuoi language|Cuoi]], etc.<ref>Ferlus, Michel. 1996. Langues et peuples viet-muong. ''[[Mon-Khmer Studies]]'' 26. 7–28.</ref> The term "Vietic" was proposed by Hayes (1992),<ref name = "Hayes">{{cite journal | last1 = Hayes | first1 = La Vaughn H | year = 1992 | title = Vietic and Việt-Mường: a new subgrouping in Mon-Khmer | journal = [[Mon-Khmer Studies]] | volume = 21 | pages = 211–228 }}</ref> who proposed to redefine Viet–Muong as referring to a subbranch of Vietic containing only Vietnamese and [[Muong language|Mường]]. The term "[[Vietic languages|Vietic]]" is used, among others, by [[Gérard Diffloth]], with a slightly different proposal on subclassification, within which the term "Viet–Muong" refers to a lower subgrouping (within an eastern Vietic branch) consisting of Vietnamese dialects, Mường dialects, and [[Nguồn language|Nguồn]] (of [[Quảng Bình Province]]).<ref>Diffloth, Gérard. (1992). "Vietnamese as a Mon-Khmer language". ''Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society'', 125–128. Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies.</ref>