Editing Vietnamese language (section)

=== Modern Chinese influence ===
Some words, such as ''lạp xưởng'' from 臘腸 (Chinese sausage), primarily keep to the [[Cantonese]] pronunciations, having been brought over by southern Chinese migrants, whereas in Hán-Việt, which has been described as being close to [[Middle Chinese]] pronunciation, it is actually pronounced ''lạp trường.'' However, the Cantonese term is the better-known name for [[Chinese sausage]] in Vietnam. Meanwhile, any new terms calqued from Chinese would be based on the [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] pronunciation. Additionally, in the southern provinces of Vietnam, the term ''[[:vi:Xúc xắc|xí ngầu]]'' can be used to refer to [[dice]], which may have derived from a [[Cantonese]] or [[Teochew dialect|Teochew]] idiom, "xập xí, xập ngầu" (十四, 十五, [[Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary|Sino-Vietnamese]]: ''thập tứ, thập ngũ''), literally "fourteen, fifteen" to mean 'uncertain'.