Lost Tongues of the Red River - Annamese Middle Chinese & the Origins of the Vietnamese Language

In Lost Tongues of the Red River, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red River Plain of northern Vietnam, which he calls -Annamese Middle Chinese.- The life and death of this language stimulated dramatic speech transformations in the region, giving rise to a new language in the early second millennium-Vietnamese.