Vietnamese leid
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ[1]) is the naitional an offeecial leid o Vietnam. It is the mither tongue o 86% o Vietnam's population, an o aboot three million owerseas Vietnamese. It is an aa spaken as a seicont leid bi mony ethnic minorities o Vietnam. It is pairt o the Austroasiatic leid family, o which it haes the maist speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austroasiatic languages put together). As wi Korean an Japanese, muckle vocabulary haes been borraed frae Chinese, maist notably Cantonese, especially wirds that denote abstract ideas (in the same way European languages borrae frae Latin an Greek), an it wis umwhilie written uisin the Cheenese writin seestem, albeit in a modified format an wis given vernacular pronunciation. As a biproduct o French colonial rule, the leid displays some influence frae French, an the Vietnamese writin seestem in uise today is an adaptit version o the Latin alphabet, wi additional diacritics for tones an certain letters.
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- ↑ Anither variant, tiếng Việt Nam, is rarely uised bi native speakers an is likely a neologism from translatin literally frae a foreign leid. It is maist aften uised bi non-native speakers an maistly foond in documents translatit frae anither leid. Vietnamese wis an aa kent as Annamese in aulder literature due tae is name unner French colonization (see Annam).
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