Language code: vi

Technical information about ISO 639 language code vi

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
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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

*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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