Tonkinese
Britishnoun
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Total population of the island is only 55,000, more than half of whom are native Melanesians, with 8,000 Tonkinese and Javanese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though everybody understood French, the Viet Minh insisted that they would talk only Tonkinese and that all speeches must be translated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tonkinese, Bui Van Han, 50, has presided over the Chauvel kitchen for 22 years, is a graduate of Paris' famed Cordon Bleu school, a master of haute cuisine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And I have met many Siamese, Tonkinese, Persians and Turks who said as much."
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
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