Vietnamese

Austroasiatic85 million totalLatin (with diacritics)

RegionVietnam

FamilyAustroasiatic

Speakers85 million total

ScriptLatin (with diacritics)

TypeAlphabetic

About Vietnamese

Uses the Latin alphabet with extensive diacritical marks for tones. A tonal language with 6 tones. Switched from Chinese characters to Latin in the 17th century by French missionaries. Has borrowed heavily from Chinese vocabulary.

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