Cộng đồng văn hoá Đông Sơn

English translation: Dong Son Cultural Community

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Vietnamese term or phrase:Cộng đồng văn hoá Đông Sơn
English translation:Dong Son Cultural Community
Entered by: Ly Duong

03:00 Oct 9, 2022
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Social Sciences - History / Culture
Vietnamese term or phrase: Cộng đồng văn hoá Đông Sơn
Dong Son cultural community

I encountered this term while I was working on an translation assignment and were unable to translate it.

The "Dong Son cultural community" is merely just a word for word translation. However, I cannot find it precisely in a any English documents nor English wiki pages, except for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Son_culture

In this page, it was translated as Dong Son culture, leaving out the "community" element. In fact, in many other documents, it was translated in the same way, leaving out the "community". I cannot fathom this deletion of information and want to learn why it was left out.

Nevertheless, if there's something I'm missing, please indicate your thoughts and your translated version of this term because I want to translate it as close to its original meaning as possible.
Ly Duong
Vietnam
Cộng đồng Văn hóa Đông Sơn
Explanation:
Keep it simple.

There is nothing wrong with Dong Son Cultural Community to be translated as Cộng đồng văn hóa Đông Sơn, because if you read its history, you'd understand that the phrase referred to a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam.

"Dong Son Culture" is the modern name of "Lac Viet Culture". Dong Son is a village in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, and is a 'community'.

However, since "Văn hóa Đông Sơn" has been accepted as a term for a long time and people tend to be familiar with it, and it has become a preference. That is why 'community' is left out.
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5Cộng đồng Văn hóa Đông Sơn
Nguyen Dao
4Dong Son Culture / Dong Son Culture Archeological Sites
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Dong Son cultural community
Cộng đồng Văn hóa Đông Sơn


Explanation:
Keep it simple.

There is nothing wrong with Dong Son Cultural Community to be translated as Cộng đồng văn hóa Đông Sơn, because if you read its history, you'd understand that the phrase referred to a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam.

"Dong Son Culture" is the modern name of "Lac Viet Culture". Dong Son is a village in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, and is a 'community'.

However, since "Văn hóa Đông Sơn" has been accepted as a term for a long time and people tend to be familiar with it, and it has become a preference. That is why 'community' is left out.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Son_culture
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Dong Son Culture / Dong Son Culture Archeological Sites


Explanation:
The word "community" usually refers to a group of people with certain characteristics living close to each other in a defined area. For example: "The Vietnamese community in Los Angeles, California".

"Cộng đồng Đông Sơn" consists of a number of archeological sites, so if you like, you can translate it into Dong Son Culture Archeological Sites.

Dong Son Culture is one of three well-known archaeological cultures that contributed to form the first administrative state of Vietnam. The first site was accidentally discovered in 1924 at Dong Son village (Thanh Hoa province).
https://baotanglichsu.vn/en/Articles/3188/16665/dong-son-cul...

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