Editing Vietnamese language (section)

=== After the Vietnam War ===
{{see also|Vietnamese language in the United States}}
Following the defeat of Southern Vietnam in 1975 by Northern Vietnam in the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese language within Vietnam has gradually shifted towards the Northern dialect.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=The Non Issue of Dialect in Teaching Vietnamese |url=https://people.clas.ufl.edu/apham/files/The-Non-Issue-of-Dialect-in-Teaching-Vietnamese-2008.pdf}}</ref> [[Hanoi]], the largest city in Northern Vietnam was made the capital of Vietnam in 1976. A study stated that "The gap in vocabulary use between speakers in North and South Vietnam is now much narrower than before. There is little to distinguish between how the generations that were born and grew up in the South after 1975 now speak, compared to their peers in the North. This gap is almost non-existent in newspapers, on radio and television, and in websites."<ref name=":2" /> However, this convergence does not apply to emigrants, in which the study states represent "[[culture freeze]]," a phenomenon that describes when culture among emigrants is frozen in time and does not evolve with culture in their home country once they move to a new country. Here, culture freeze describes that the use of the language of emigrants from Vietnam has been "frozen" in both vocabulary and pronunciation, and as languages gradually evolve over time, has become a little different than the present Vietnamese language in Vietnam. Additionally, as immigration to the United States following the Vietnam war was primarily driven due to political reasons, the Southern Vietnamese dialect was initially strongly linked to social identity. During and after the Vietnam War, thousands of Southern Vietnamese immigrated to the United States with the partnership between Saigon and the US.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resettling Vietnamese Refugees in the United States |url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/resettling-vietnamese-refugees-united-states/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=education.nationalgeographic.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Batalova |first=Jeanne Batalova Jeanne |date=2023-10-10 |title=Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States |url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/vietnamese-immigrants-united-states |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=migrationpolicy.org |language=en}}</ref> In contrast, during and following the Vietnam War, thousands of Northern Vietnamese moved to the Czech Republic due to Hanoi's partnership with the now obsolete [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]]. As a result, today, the Vietnamese language is generally taught through the Northern dialect in the Czech Republic in contrast with the Southern dialect in the United States.{{fix|link=Wikipedia:Citations needed|text=citation needed|class=Template-Fact}}