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Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]
Vietnamese is an analytic language, meaning it conveys grammatical information primarily through combinations of words as opposed to suffixes.The basic word order is subject-verb-object (SVO), but utterances may be restructured so as to be topic-prominent.
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
Historically, /v/ is pronounced [j] in common speech, merging with d and gi. However, it is becoming distinct and pronounced as [v] , especially in careful speech or when reading a text. In traditional performance including Cải lương , Đờn ca tài tử , Hát bội (Tuồng) and some old speakers of Overseas Vietnamese, it is pronounced ...
A man playing the đàn nguyệt in a performance in Paris. The đàn nguyệt shown here with two strings. Chánh Già's đàn kìm. The đàn nguyệt ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗǎn ŋwiə̂ˀt] "moon-shaped lute", Chữ Nôm: 彈月) also called nguyệt cầm (Chữ Hán: 月琴), đàn kìm, is a two-stringed Vietnamese traditional musical instrument. [1]
南 Nam 國 quốc 山 sơn 河 hà 南 Nam 帝 đế 居 cư, 南 國 山 河 南 帝 居 Nam quốc sơn hà Nam đế cư, The Southern Country's mountains and rivers, the Southern Emperor inhabits. 皇 Hoàng 天 thiên 已 dĩ 定 định 在 tại 天 thiên 書 thư. 皇 天 已 定 在 天 書 Hoàng thiên dĩ định tại thiên thư. The August Heaven hath willed it so in the ...
A Ca trù performance. Ca trù (Vietnamese: [kaː ʈû], 歌籌, "tally card songs"), also known as hát cô đầu or hát nói, is a Vietnamese genre of musical storytelling performed by a featuring female vocalist, with origins in northern Vietnam. [1]
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.