Reprint of Professor Nguyen Lan’s Vietnamese dictionaries
The Authority of Publication, Printing, and Distribution of the Ministry of Information and Communications will license the reprint of Vietnamese dictionaries of late Professor Nguyen Lan.
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Honored with a State Award and the Ho Chi Minh Award, the dictionaries play an important role in Vietnam’s culture and history.
People’s Teacher Nguyen Lan is not only a teacher, but also a linguist with aspiration to protect the Vietnamese language. He is the author or co-author of dozens of dictionaries including a 2,000-page dictionary of Vietnamese words and phrases published in 2000.
Director of the Authority of Publication, Printing, and Distribution Chu Van Hoa said, “The re-print of Professor Nguyen Lan’s dictionaries is necessary. It is a State award and Ho Chi Minh award winning project, a cultural, and scientific treasure of the nation. It is also a masterpiece that lives in the national history.
Re-printing the dictionaries preserves a work of national spiritual value and national science history to serve future research.”
Mr Hoa stressed the importance of re-printing the dictionaries, “Some old words have disappeared and some new words have been added.
The meanings of some words have changed and are now understood in a more in-depth way thanks to more information and greater intellectuality. We need to approach the dictionary in a more scientific way.”
According to Mr. Hoa, if necessary, a National Council on Compiling a Standard Dictionary based on Nguyen Lan’s dictionaries will be set up.
