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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.
Vietnamese language. Vietnamese ( tiếng Việt) is the official language of Vietnam. Like many other languages in Asia, Vietnamese is a tonal language . Influences. Vietnamese has been strongly influenced by Chinese languages, [4] as more than 60% of Vietnamese words were borrowed from Chinese. [5] .
5 days ago · Vietnamese language, official language of Vietnam, spoken in the early 21st century by more than 70 million people. It belongs to the Viet-Muong subbranch of the Vietic branch of the Mon-Khmer family, which is itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock.
Native name: tiếng việt [tĭəŋ vìəˀt] / [tǐəŋ jìək] Language family: Austroasiatic, Vietic, Viet-Muong. Number of speakers: c. 76 million. Spoken in: Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos. First written: 13th century. Writing system: Chữ-nôm script, Latin script. Status: official language in Vietnam. Recognised minority language in the Czech Republic.
The Vietnamese language became prevalent after the conclusion of the Vietnam War in 1975, when many refugees from Vietnam came to the United States. It is used in many aspects of life, including media, commerce, and administration. In several states, it is the third-most spoken language, behind English and Spanish.
The phonology of Vietnamese features 19 consonant phonemes, with 5 additional consonant phonemes used in Vietnamese's Southern dialect, and 4 exclusive to the Northern dialect. Vietnamese also has 14 vowel nuclei, and 6 tones that are integral to the interpretation of the language.
Overview. 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].
