A comprehensive corpus of French loanwords into Vietnamese

This corpus is a selection of 533 Vietnamese nouns of French origin, based on a corpus of currently 1038 words, compiled on the basis of various sources. It provides the data of our analysis on tonal, syllabic and segmental aspects of French loanwords into Vietnamese, presented at the International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Languages 7. For all 533 selected nouns, it has been checked that they are still in use, drawing on native informants' judgments as well as on word frequency and use in the World Wide Web and in a Vietnamese dictionary.