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Language code: vi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code vi

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The table below provides technical details for the Vietnamese language, designated by the vi code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

vi

Name

Official

Vietnamese

Native

Tiếng Việt

Family
Vietic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Northern VietnameseCentral VietnameseSouthern Vietnamese
Related languages
MuongThavungChut
Key facts
Uses a Latin-based script called chữ Quốc ngữEarlier texts employed Chinese characters and the demotic chữ Nôm systemStandard Northern speech distinguishes six lexical tonesPronoun choice is driven by kinship and social hierarchy rather than fixed grammatical personThe language is analytic and virtually free of inflectional morphology.
Sample phrase

Xin chào, bạn khỏe không?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Vietnamese belongs to the Austroasiatic language family, specifically to the Vietic subgroup. It is the official language of Vietnam and is written using the Latin script (Vietnamese alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 85 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Vietnam

82M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Vietnamese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

vi-VN – Vietnamese (Vietnam)

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