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Vietnam reserves and develops language of minorities
6/12/14
Since Vietnam was elected
as a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the period 2014-2016 with
the highest number of votes, the
exile opposite organizations have
been striving to find ways to distort the human
rights situation in Vietnam.
One of those is to spread the allegations "The
State of Vietnam is using the popular language (the Kinh’s language) to
manipulate the language of minorities"! But the vivid reality in
Vietnam
has denied this allegation
wrong.
Consistent policy
In the past, Vietnam was
the one that soon be assimilated by the invaders, so we know the importance of the
preservation of the cultural identity of peoples and always
consistently implement policies to
develop cultural unity in diversity. In Vietnam there
are 54 ethnic groups living with the population of
90 million, the Kinh is major, and 53 ethnic
minorities are more than 12
millions. The ethnic
minorities of Vietnam are living from north
to south, alternating residence,
no ethics separated
by region. This factor shows the harmony of
the community of ethics has been
long and becomes the
historical and cultural character that creating favorable conditions for mutual understanding, solidarity and helping
each other to develop.
About the conservation, development of minorities’
languages, the State of Vietnam always
pays much attention in a proper way, through the
implementation of right policies
and solutions. Starting from very first documents of the 1st Congress Party (March1935)
which confirmed: "The ethics have right to use their native language in
politics, economics and culture." It
must be emphasized, at the time when this document was issued, the Party
was terrorized, but the Communist Party
Vietnam has always
focused on preserving the
language of ethnic minorities.
Most recently, the Resolution
of the 9th Central Conference (XI) prescribes "The construction and development of culture, and people of Vietnam
is to meet the requirements of sustainable development of the country" and also "preserve and promote the cultural
heritage of ethnic minorities,
especially the voice, writing, costumes, traditional festivals."
Great achievements
When Vietnam
was colonized by the
French, on cultural forums
in Vietnam,
there were three languages (French,
Vietnamese and Chinese) and four literature texts
(French, Chinese and Han Nom). The policy of the
French was to assimilate Vietnam into French language and culture.
Every decision had made to serve for the ultimate aim was to make Vietnamese
people use French voice, French words; the language
of the ethnic
minorities were neglected in
the colonial government’s policies. Only
since the Communist Party of Vietnam led
people and took the power (August1945), the conservation
and development of the language of the ethics has been ensured.
In Vietnam, besides
newspapers in Kinh language, there are many provincial press agencies (where ethnic minorities are residing) has publications in languages of ethnic minorities or newspaper published exclusively
for ethnic people. In particular, the Voice of Vietnam and Vietnam Television have
one radio channel (VOV4) and 1 television channel (VTV5) specifically
devoted to broadcast
in several languages such as Hmong, Khmer, Ede, GiaRai,
BaNa, Cham, Dao, M'Nong
... Dozens of provincial
radio-television stations regularly
broadcast programs in ethnic languages for ethic people living in their
homeland.
According to the Committee of
Ethnic Minorities, a lot of provinces have made program
to teach ethnic language for
students in secondary
schools. So far, about 2,700
schools and ethnic language literacy classes have been set up for 140,000 students.
Especially, in Soc Trang province, Khmer language has been set to teach for the entire
junior high school students.
According to scientists at the Institute of Linguistics of Vietnam, in approximately
6,500 existing languages
in the world, only 300 to 400 languages are passed on
to the next generation, the remaining language
or not passed,
or are l on the banks of the
disappearance. Comparing this result, we can see the efforts and great
achievements of Vietnam in the conservation, development
of language minorities.
Developing the language of ethnic minorities is not only through cultural –
educational policies, but it also need a basic policy to alleviate
poverty for ethnic minorities that Vietnam are conducting and has been highly appreciated by the
United Nations. The success of
hunger eradication and poverty reduction is the basis for the minorities
to develop, as the
basis for the preservation
and promotion of cultural traditions of their fathers. The policy
of the Communist Party and State of Vietnam to
the language of the minority is right
and basic. It
has met the requirements to solve the
problems and develop the ethnic language in Vietnam in
the process of national liberation, construction and defense
of the Fatherland "./.
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Vietnam - Fatherland of many ethnic groups
We are living in a peaceful house of Vietnam, we're brothers!
Ethnic groups together with children of Lac Long Quan - Au Co, who had birth of one hundred children, half of them went with the mother up to mountains and half went with the father down to sea, together expanding the mountains and rivers
Living for a long-standing period in the country, ethnic groups have traditions of patriotism and coordination in conquering the nature and social fight, throughout the history of country foundation, building and development.
The voice of each ethnic group creates different languages, but due to Vietnamese ethnic groups live closely, one ethnic group may know languages of some others whom has regular relationship while their own culture character
Vietnam is a multi-nationality country with 54 ethnic groups.
Each group has its own culture, diverse and special. Beliefs and religions of the Vietnamese ethnic minority groups were also disparate from each other
a fundamental solidarity among ethnic groups has been established on top of this difference as a result of a century-long cooperation on the soil of Vietnam
Right in the first century of the history, a mutual supplement in economic relationship between lowland people and mountainous people was formed
The Vietnamese government has worked out specific policies and special treatments in order to help mountainous people catching up with lowland people, and made great efforts to develop and preserve traditional cultural identities of each ethnic minority group
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