Nguyễn Văn Lợi (June 9, 1947 – December 20, 2020[1]) was a Vietnamese linguist who served as the deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics (Vietnamese: Viện Ngôn ngữ học) at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.
[2][3] Nguyễn was born on June 9, 1947, in Nam Định Province, Vietnam.
[2] From 1966 to 1970, Nguyễn studied linguistics at the Department of Literature of the University of Hanoi.
At the Institute of Linguistics, he did research on ethnic minority languages in Vietnam.
[4] Nguyễn died on December 20, 2020, in Hanoi, Vietnam shortly after presenting at a linguistics conference.