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Vietnamese

vr.tr.vietnamese · INF.MED

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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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

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

Vietic

belongs to - as its largest member

Austroasiatic languages

is written in - chu Quoc ngu

Vietnamese alphabet

was formerly written in - and chu Han

chu Nom

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

Vietnamese language in the United Stateschữ HánSouthern VietnameseThanh Hóa VietnameseNorthern VietnameseOverseas VietnameseMiddle VietnameseCentral Vietnamese

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.

  1. What is Vietnamese, how is it classified within Austroasiatic, and how does it differ from Chinese? definition
  2. Is the question about the language, a dialect, a script, the people or the diaspora? boundary

Dialects

Dialects.

Dialects

Dialects.

  1. How do Northern, Central including Thanh Hoa, and Southern Vietnamese differ in tones and vocabulary? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific dialect? action
Learn Grammar and learning.

Practice.

Features

Phonology and grammar.

Features

Features.

  1. What are the main features of Vietnamese tones, syllable structure, classifiers and word order? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Resources

Learning resources.

Resources

Resources.

  1. What dictionaries, courses and corpora exist for learning Vietnamese? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Scripts Scripts and history.

Attribution.

Scripts

Scripts.

Scripts

Scripts.

  1. How were chu Han and chu Nom used, and how did Quoc ngu become the standard, as historians describe? provenance
  2. Which entry fits chu Nom? action

History

Language history.

History

History.

  1. How did Vietnamese develop, and how did Chinese contact shape its vocabulary? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary? action
Context Status and diaspora.

Context.

Status

Status in Vietnam.

Status

Status.

  1. What is the status of Vietnamese and minority languages in Vietnam? provenance
  2. Which entry fits languages of Vietnam? action

Diaspora

Diaspora.

Diaspora

Diaspora.

  1. How is Vietnamese maintained in the United States and other diaspora communities, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. 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?