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Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 90 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]
- Vietic Languages
The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic...
- Vietnamese language in the United States
Vietnamese has more than 1.5 million speakers in the United...
- Vietic Languages
- Influences
- Spoken Language
- Written Language
- Grammar
Vietnamese has been strongly influenced by Chinese languages, as more than 60% of Vietnamese words were borrowed from Chinese. Though some of these words are used in everyday life, most Chinese loanwords are used mostly for special contexts, like Latin and Greek loanwords in English. It is closely related to the Khmer language, but Vietnamese had s...
The spoken language of Vietnam changes in each province. Even in different cities in the same province, and even different neighborhoods in the same city, Vietnamese dialects can be very different from each other. Usually, the greater the distance between provinces, the stronger the difference. There are many dialects in Vietnamese, including Hanoi...
Alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet(In Vietnamese: "Chữ Quốc Ngữ", means "The National Scripts").
Vietnamization
Vietnamese has borrowed many words many different languages, including Chinese, French, and English. Words like taxi, sushi, selfie, and TVare common words used by most languages. Until not long ago, the spelling of loanwords is changed so Vietnamese speakers can say it more easily. Most French loanwords have changed their spelling to make it easier for Vietnamese people to say them out loud. For example, the French word café was changed to cà phê, crème was changed to kem, bière was changed...
Exclamations
Exclamations are very popular in Vietnamese.People can use exclamations as an introduction to things said. People can also comment with a quick exclamation after they say something. The exclamation may express a feeling or just an expression.
Conjunctions
Conjunctionsare used in Vietnamese.
Pronouns
Unlike in many languages, Vietnamese uses kinship terms (older brother (anh), younger sibling (em), uncle (chú), grandchild (cháu), etc.) more than pronouns, even if the speaker and listener are not related. For example, if two men who have little difference in how old they are talk to each other, the older man is usually called anh and the younger man is called em. Anh can either be first-person (I/me/my/mine) or second-person (you/your/yours) because both people know who anh is. For example...
- 75 million (2007)
Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
- November 2002; 20 years ago
- Miami, Florida
Vietnamese is a member of the Vietic branch of the Austroasiatic language family. It is spoken mainly in Vietnam by about 73.6 million people. There are another 3.2 million Vietnamese speakers in other countries, including 1.4 million in the USA, 817,800 in Cambodia, 277,000 in Australia, 194,000 in Taiwan, 156,000 in Canada and 101,000 in ...
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The Vietnamese Language (in Vietnamese: Tiếng Việt, or Tieng Viet without accent marks) has existed for millenia but only in spoken form for most of the earlier periods. The writing system used in Vietnam was classical Chinese (~9 th → 13 th Century), Chữ Nôm (13 th → 17 th) and Romanized script (17 th → Present) [1], [2].
