Talk:Vietnamese language in the United States

Thank You
Thank You for the article about the Vietnamese language in the United States. It was well written and very interesting. RFD (talk) 15:52, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * @RFD Thanks for reading. If you're able, please help proofread and copyedit the article to help bring it to GA status. DHN (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The article used US. I changed it to the United States-correct name-thank you-RFD (talk) 17:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Some changes
First of all, this page for Vietnamese language in United States seems like an overly-nationalistic page that is overly-focused on a United States perspective, otherwise, there would obviously be other articles such as "Vietnamese language in Australia", and there would be "Australian Vietnamese" as well, or even things like "Czech Vietnamese". Hence, it is not appropriate to classify "United States Vietnamese" as its own branch from Vietnamese, as it would simply be considered only a dialect of Vietnamese, not another branch. The reason why is because there are no scientific papers or sources that back this claim and so it should be removed from the article. 123.243.111.143 (talk) 15:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Well, of course it's going to be about the language in the United States, since that's what the article is about. If you can find enough sources about the variety in other countries, I don't see why articles about them shouldn't exist. DHN (talk) 16:38, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined towards dispensing with the infobox altogether, since much of the information in there is unsourced. DHN (talk) 16:41, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * @DHN: I guess so. I just figured that the article should have an infobox for consistency with similar articles on immigrant languages, such as Spanish language in the United States, French language in the United States, and German language in the United States. "Dialect" has a lot of nuanced meanings. I think the infobox should avoid that term if possible, because it risks confusion with the more common meaning of that word, even among Vietnamese-Americans, that refers to the northern, southern, etc. dialects from Vietnam. I don't see where this article ever claimed that Vietnamese in the U.S. is a language branch. Perhaps the anonymous user misinterpreted an earlier version of the infobox that (correctly) listed the subject of this article beneath "Vietnamese" in the nested list. See Appalachian English and Older Southern American English for precedent. Minh Nguyễn &#x1f4ac; 00:21, 25 December 2022 (UTC)