A national seminar on the Party and State’s policy on linguistics during the process of national industrialisation and modernisation was held in Hanoi on November 26 by the Social Science Institute of Vietnam.

On addressing the seminar, Pro. Dr Nguyen Van Khang, Deputy Head of the Institute of the Social Science Institute of Vietnam said that this is the biggest-ever national linguistics seminar to be held for 20 years as 123 reports from researchers throughout the country were submitted.

The seminar focused on five major issues related to the relationship between the Vietnamese language and ther dialects of ethnic minority groups, the Vietnamese language’s status during the process of national industrialisation and modernisation, the development of Vietnamese as a national language, the role and function of the Vietnamese language and globalisation and the use of foreign languages in Vietnam.