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🇻🇳 Today we are at Chợ Phiên in Bắc Hà, Lào Cai, and boy do I have a surprise for you! This market has many different ethnic groups in Vietnam selling various goods and things. While searching this market, I met a women from an ethnic group known as "Phù Lá". As someone who is interested in languages, I asked her how to say "hello" in her native ethnic language. When she replied with "ni hao", I must say I was caught off guard. I never knew there was an ethnic group in Vietnam that spoke Mandarin Chinese as their native language. I can't find anything about it online.
I know many people will argue and say "they speak Chinese because they're on the border and need to do business with China", or "Vietnam has ethnic Chinese people such as in Saigon in Chợ Lớn", but this is completely different. Her native language is Mandarin Chinese, and she does not speak Cantonese as many of the people in Chợ Lớn in Saigon do. If you are from the Phu La ethnic group, I would love to know what language you speak in the comments below! Is this something unique to her village, or the entire group? Please let me know.
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