THE LANGUAGE CHOICE OF CHINESE COMMUNITY IN MEDAN: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY by Vivi Adryani Nasution, Niza Ayuningtyas

“…Of the 80 respondents, the results of the questionnaire showed that the Hokkien sub-ethnic was the dominant sub-ethnic in Medan compared to other Chinese sub-ethnicities. The manifestation of language choice in the domain of family and occupation especially in inter-ethnic relation is dominated by vernacular language, especially Hokkien language although respondents come from non-Hokkien ethnic. …”
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Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937) by Qijun Zheng

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Note, à propos des noms vernaculaires chinois dans la Flora cochinchinensis (1790) de Loureiro by André-Georges Haudricourt, Georges Métailié

“…Merrill noted that vernacular plant names in some ancient botanical texts can help botanists identify the original plants. …”
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Millennial landscape and tourist development in China. The case of the Hani rice terraces in Yunnan by Myriam Dao

“…The conservation stakes are not only environmental – biodiversity, sustainable development – but also identity-based through vernacular and minority cultures. I will point out the limits of this landscape planning and outline its future.…”
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Rubi as a Text: A Note on the Ruby Gloss Encoding by Kazuhiro Okada, Satoru Nakamura, Kiyonori Nagasaki

“…The system can also be described as complex in terms of text linearity: the ruby gloss, originally developed from vernacular glosses to Classical Chinese texts, is now a device for presenting a parallel text alongside the main text. …”
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