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Nguyễn Văn Lợi

Nguyễn Văn Lợi (June 9, 1947 – December 20, 2020) was a Vietnamese linguist who served as the deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics (Vietnamese: Viện Ngôn ngữ học  [vi]) at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

Nguyễn was born on June 9, 1947, in Nam Định Province, Vietnam.

From 1966 to 1970, Nguyễn studied linguistics at the Department of Literature of the University of Hanoi. In 1970, started working at the Institute of Linguistics of the Vietnam Social Sciences Committee (now the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences). At the Institute of Linguistics, he did research on ethnic minority languages in Vietnam.

Nguyễn did his graduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1979 and 1983, where he wrote a dissertation on historical phonetics and Hmong dialects. He then returned to work at the Institute of Linguistics in Hanoi.

From 1995 to 2005, Nguyễn was the deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics in Hanoi. He became Professor in 1996. He worked at the Institute of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Vietnam from 2008 to 2012. Nguyễn died on December 20, 2020, in Hanoi, Vietnam shortly after presenting at a linguistics conference.

Nguyễn's primary academic research interests were:

His daughter was Nguyễn Thu Thủy, who won the 4th Miss Vietnam beauty pageant in 1994.

Articles published in Ngôn ngữ:

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