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 |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Vietnamese Native Tiếng Việt |
| Family | Vietic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| 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 | |
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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
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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Documentation
- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
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- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ