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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese: Official language of Vietnam.

Number of Vietnamese Speakers: 75 million, including three million expatriate population.

Vietnamese Speakers: In Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Europe, North America, Australia, Japan, and India.

Language Classification: Vietnamese language belongs to Mon-Khmer family of languages. This group includes Mon (language of Burma), and Khmer (language of Cambodia), genetically, unrelated to Chinese.

Vietnamese Alphabet: There are three characters, including Chinese and Roman. Roman characters were introduced in 1945.

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Vietnamese Orthography: Vietnamese is a tonal language. There are five different tones, as in Thai language. Each tone stands for a different meaning.

Vietnamese Language History: China ruled Vietnam for ten centuries from 100 B.C. to 939.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Vietnamese language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Vietnamese.

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