Vietnamese
Let an agent explain the Vietnamese language and its dialects, relay phonology, grammar, scripts and history from linguistic sources with attribution, describe its status in Vietnam and the diaspora, and distinguish Vietnamese from Chinese, from other Vietic and Austroasiatic languages and from the Vietnamese people.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the Vietnamese language and its dialects, relay phonology, grammar, scripts and history from linguistic sources with attribution, describe its status in Vietnam and the diaspora, and distinguish Vietnamese from Chinese, from other Vietic and Austroasiatic languages and from the Vietnamese people.
An Austroasiatic language of the Vietic branch, the national and official language of Vietnam spoken by about 85 million people there and by overseas Vietnamese communities, notably in the United States, with Northern, Central including Thanh Hoa, and Southern dialects, a tonal phonology with six tones in the Hanoi standard, and a history of writing in chu Han, Chinese characters, and the derived chu Nom script before the adoption of the Latin-based chu Quoc ngu in the 20th century; Vietnamese has a large vocabulary of Sino-Vietnamese loans.
What it is for: Not applicable; a language.
It can be explain dialects and features; relay scripts and history; describe status and diaspora; distinguish from related languages.
Distinguishing features
Tonal and analytic
Latin-based script
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
Regional dialects
What it looks like
Not a visible object; speech and text in the Latin-based Quoc ngu script.
Physical character
speakers: about 85 million - in Vietnam, plus diaspora
tones: 6 count - Northern standard
Quoc ngu adopted officially: 20th century period - from Jesuit romanisation of the 17th century
Vietnamese speakers in the US: about 1.5 million - estimates
How it is recognised
Vietic Austroasiatic language of Vietnam
Northern, Central including Thanh Hoa, and Southern Vietnamese; chu Han and chu Nom scripts; Vietnamese in the United States
Chinese is Sino-Tibetan; Muong is a related Vietic language; the Vietnamese people are the ethnic group
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
belongs to - as its largest member
is written in - chu Quoc ngu
was formerly written in - and chu Han
In practice
Families and kinds
Northern Vietnamese including the Hanoi standard
Central Vietnamese including Thanh Hoa and Hue varieties
Southern Vietnamese including the Saigon variety
historical Vietnamese written in chu Han and chu Nom
overseas Vietnamese varieties such as Vietnamese in the United States
Identifiers
ISO 639-1 vi Vietnamese
ISO 639-3 vie Vietnamese
Glottolog viet1252 Vietnamese
Standards and regulation
Vietnamese constitution naming Vietnamese the national language
ISO 639 codes
Orthographic conventions of Vietnamese education
Failure modes and hazards
Assuming Vietnamese is related to Chinese
Confusing the language with the people
Political framing of diaspora and dialect differences
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Vietnamese is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and classification.
Definition
Definition.
- What is Vietnamese, how is it classified within Austroasiatic, and how does it differ from Chinese? definition
- Is the question about the language, a dialect, a script, the people or the diaspora? boundary
Dialects
Dialects.
Dialects
Dialects.
- How do Northern, Central including Thanh Hoa, and Southern Vietnamese differ in tones and vocabulary? definition
- Which entry fits the specific dialect? action
Learn Grammar and learning.
Practice.
Features
Phonology and grammar.
Features
Features.
- What are the main features of Vietnamese tones, syllable structure, classifiers and word order? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Resources
Learning resources.
Resources
Resources.
- What dictionaries, courses and corpora exist for learning Vietnamese? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Scripts Scripts and history.
Attribution.
Scripts
Scripts.
Scripts
Scripts.
- How were chu Han and chu Nom used, and how did Quoc ngu become the standard, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits chu Nom? action
History
Language history.
History
History.
- How did Vietnamese develop, and how did Chinese contact shape its vocabulary? provenance
- Which entry fits Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary? action
Context Status and diaspora.
Context.
Status
Status in Vietnam.
Status
Status.
- What is the status of Vietnamese and minority languages in Vietnam? provenance
- Which entry fits languages of Vietnam? action
Diaspora
Diaspora.
Diaspora
Diaspora.
- How is Vietnamese maintained in the United States and other diaspora communities, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits overseas Vietnamese? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should chu Nom and the Vietnamese alphabet be separate primary entries?
- How should linguistic sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming dialects, scripts and diaspora groups; should they be split off?