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Preferred term

vieVietnamese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ ) is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of Vietnamese people (Kinh), and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language or a first language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austro-Asiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austro-Asiatic languages put together). Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, and it was formerly written using the Chinese writing system, albeit in a modified format and was given vernacular pronunciation. As a byproduct of French colonial rule, the language displays some influence from French, and the Vietnamese alphabet (quốc ngữ) in use today is a Latin alphabet with additional diacritics for tones and certain vowels and consonants.

Entry terms

  • Vietnamese language

ISO 639-1 code

  • vi

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • vie

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • vie

ISO 639-3 code

  • vie

Notation

  • vie

In other languages

  • Vietnamien

    French

  • vietnamien
  • Vietnamesisch

    German

  • Vietnamesische Sprache
  • vietnamita

    Italian

  • Lingua vietnamita
  • vietnamita

    Portuguese

  • Língua vietnamita
  • vietnamita

    Spanish

  • Idioma vietnamita

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vie

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