Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam and, with around 86 million native speakers, by far the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language, belonging to that family Vietic subgroup. It is written using a Latin-based alphabet known as chu Quoc ngu, developed by missionaries and adopted as the standard script during the twentieth century in place of the earlier Chinese-derived chu Nom script.
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Speaker Count Attested From (Year) RegionVietnam, where it is the official language 2 Browse and compare
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is a traditional Vietnamese verse form
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1. Glottolog: Vietnamese (Glottolog languoid viet1252)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Vietnamese Language
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Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 86 million people, and as a second language by 11 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined.
- In Family: Austroasiatic, Lead section, Austroasiatic language, Vietic subgroup statement
- Written In: Latin Script, Writing system section, chu Quoc ngu Latin-based alphabet statement
View the Source 3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Vietnamese / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
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Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
4. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Vietnamese / Tone (WALS datapoint)
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Feature: Tone by Ian Maddieson Value: Complex tone system
5. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian * Mongolian Nepali Pashto Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik) Polish Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Tagalog * Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek * Vietnamese
6. Omniglot: Vietnamese language, alphabet and pronunciation
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First written : 13th century
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