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Learn about the history, classification, phonology, writing and vocabulary of Vietnamese, the national and official language of Vietnam. Vietnamese is a Vietic language in the Austroasiatic family, spoken by 85 million people and influenced by Chinese and French.
Learn about the basic word order, word classes, noun phrases, and quantifiers of Vietnamese, an analytic language with verb serialization and topic-prominent utterances. See examples, diagrams, and references for each grammatical topic.
Learn about the sound system of Vietnamese, including 6 tones and 19 consonant phonemes with dialectal variations. See phonetic transcriptions, examples and comparisons of initial consonants in Hanoi and Saigon.
Learn about the different types and functions of Vietnamese pronouns, which can indicate social status, kinship, and politeness. See tables of true and absolute pronouns, and how they can be modified by plural markers.
Wiktionary is a collaborative online dictionary of terms in all natural and some artificial languages, with definitions, translations, etymologies, and more. The English Wiktionary is the largest and most comprehensive, with over 7.5 million entries, while the French and Malagasy Wiktionaries are also very large.
Most words are created by either compounding or reduplicative derivation. Affixation is a relatively minor derivational process. Older styles of Vietnamese writing wrote polysyllabic words with hyphens separating the syllables, as in cào-cào "grasshopper", sinh-vật-học "biology", or cà-phê "coffee".
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Vietnamese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Vietnamese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.