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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.
Vietnam officially recognizes 54 ethnic groups, each with their own language, traditions, and culture. The largest group is Kinh (Vietnamese), accounting for 85.32% of the population, followed by Tay, Thái, Mường, Hmong, and Khmer.
FLSS is a national public magnet high school that specializes in teaching seven foreign languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian. It is one of the most selective and prestigious schools in Vietnam, with a competitive admission process and a high rate of graduates attending top universities.
Learn about the Vietnamese alphabet, a writing system based on the Latin script with diacritics for tones and vowels. See the 29 letters, their names, pronunciation, and examples of words.
Learn about the history and features of the Sino-Vietnamese layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes borrowed from Literary Chinese by the Vietnamese language. See examples of Old Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese words and their pronunciations.
Learn about the sound system of Vietnamese, including consonants, vowels, tones, and dialectal variations. See phonetic transcriptions, examples, and comparisons of Hanoi and Saigon pronunciations.
Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia with a long history of independence and resistance. Its capital is Hanoi, located in the north of the country. Learn more about Vietnam's geography, culture, politics, economy and demographics from this comprehensive article.
On 20 October 1999, the three prime ministers Hun Sen (Cambodia), Sisavath Keobounphanh (Laos) and Phan Văn Khải (Vietnam) held the first unofficial summit in Vientiane and reached an agreement on building a "Development Triangle".