Since 2005, the Dak Nong provincial People’s Committee has invested almost VND700 million in carrying out the scientific project to “improve M’Nong letters and edit the M’Nong-Viet dictionary”. The project was carried out by the Dak Nong Department of Education and Training in coordination with the Linguistics Research Centre under the Southern Institute of Social Sciences.

The dictionary was designed to build a system of standard M’Nong letters so that they can be used widely in the mass media, particularly in the M’Nong community by Vietnamese teachers and students at boarding schools.

The dictionary would contribute to increasing the quality of education, preserving the history and culture of the M’Nong ethnic group, and improving the material and spiritual lives of the M’Nong and other ethnic minority people living in the Central Highlands.