Vietnamese language
Spoken in: Vietnam, USA, Cambodia, France, Australia, Canada, and
others
Region: Southeast Asia
Total speakers: 70–73 million native - 80 million+ total
Language family: Austro-Asiatic
Vietnamese, formerly known under French colonization as Annamese
, is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother
tongue of the Vietnamese people (ngu?i Vi?t or ngu?i Kinh), who
constitute 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million
overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States. It is also
spoken as a second language by some ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is
part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most
speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other
Austroasiatic languages put together). Much vocabulary has been borrowed
from Chinese, and it was originally written using the Chinese writing
system. The Vietnamese writing system in use today is an adapted version
of the Latin alphabet, with additional diacritics for tones and certain
letters.
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