18 Facts About Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese are one of the four main groups of Vietic speakers in Vietnam, the others being the Muong, Tho and Chut people.

Some linguists suggested that the Vietic-speaking Vietnamese people migrated from North Central Region to the Red River Delta, which had originally been inhabited by Tai-speakers.

In 938, the Vietnamese people leader Ngo Quyen who was a native of Thanh Hoa, led Viet forces defeated the Chinese Southern Han armada at Bach Ðang River and proclaimed himself king, became the first Viet king of polity that now could be perceived as "Vietnamese people".

The earliest surviving corpus and text in Vietnamese people language dated early 12th century, and surviving chu nom script inscriptions dated early 13th century, showcasing enormous influences of Chinese culture among the early Vietnamese people elites.

Vietnamese people's reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, military, education, and fiscal reforms he instituted, and a cultural revolution that replaced the old traditional aristocracy with a generation of literati scholars, adopted Confucianism, and transformed a Dai Viet from a Southeast Asian style polity to a bureaucratic state, and flourished.

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Ethnic tensions sparked by Vietnamese people ethnonationalism peaked during the late 1940s at the beginning phase of the First Indochina War, which resulted in violences between Khmer and Vietnamese people in the Mekong Delta.

Originally from northern Vietnam and southern China, the Vietnamese people have expanded south and conquered much of the land belonging to the former Champa Kingdom and Khmer Empire over the centuries.

Meanwhile, under the new communist regime, tens of thousands of Vietnamese people were sent to work or study in Eastern Bloc countries of Central and Eastern Europe as development aid to the Vietnamese people government and for migrants to acquire skills that were to be brought home to help with development.

Stephen Pheasant, who taught anatomy, biomechanics and ergonomics at the Royal Free Hospital and the University College, London, said that East Asian and Southeast Asian Vietnamese people have proportionately shorter lower limbs than European and black African Vietnamese people.

Vietnamese people show a close genetic relationship with other Southeast Asians.

The study said that Vietnamese people were the only population in the study's phylogenetic analysis that did not reflect a sizable genetic difference between East Asian and Southeast Asian populations.

The study said that the alternative reason for Vietnamese people more probably clustering with East Asians is a recent range expansion from South China.

The study said that Vietnamese people are located between Chinese and Cambodian people in the study's genome map.

The study said that admixture analysis indicates that Vietnamese people Kinh have a major part which is most common in Chinese and two minor parts which have the highest prevalence in the Bidayuh of Malaysia and the Proto-Malay.

The study said that multidimensional scaling analysis indicates that Vietnamese Kinh have a closeness to Malay people, Thai and Chinese, and the study said that Malays and Thai are the samples which could be admixed with Chinese in the Vietnamese gene pool.

The study said that Vietnamese mtDNA genetic variation matches well with the pattern seen in Southeast Asia, and the study said that most Vietnamese people had mtDNA haplotypes that clustered in clades M7 and R9'F which are clades that dominate maternal lineages in Southeast Asia more generally.

Interestingly, it was discovered that Kinh and Thai Vietnamese people "had similar genomic structures and close evolutionary relationships".

Bhak claimed that the Korean Vietnamese people were formed from the admixture of "agricultural Southern Mongoloids" from Vietnam who went through China as well as "hunter-gatherer Northern Mongoloids" in the Korean Peninsula and another group of Southern Mongoloids.