Kinh language

E615591

The Kinh language, more commonly known as Vietnamese, is the national and most widely spoken language of Vietnam and a major Austroasiatic language with significant global diaspora communities.

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Label Occurrences
Kinh language canonical 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
analytic language
language
national language
tonal language
alsoKnownAs Vietnamese
ancestorLanguage Middle Vietnamese NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Mường language NERFINISHED
containsLoanwordsFrom Chinese
English NERFINISHED
French
country Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
formerWritingSystem chữ Hán
chữ Nôm
glottocode viet1252
hasMajorDialect Central Vietnamese NERFINISHED
Northern Vietnamese
Southern Vietnamese
hasStandardVariety Hanoi Vietnamese NERFINISHED
influencedBy Chinese language NERFINISHED
French language NERFINISHED
ISO639-1Code vi
ISO639-2Code vie
ISO639-3Code vie
languageFamily Austroasiatic
majorityLanguageOf Vietnam NERFINISHED
morphologicalType isolating
nationalLanguageOf Vietnam NERFINISHED
nativeName Tiếng Việt NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers over 80 million native speakers
over 90 million total speakers
officialLanguageOf Vietnam NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature monosyllabic word structure tendency
six tones in Northern dialect
primaryEthnicGroup Kinh people NERFINISHED
region Southeast Asia
Vietnam NERFINISHED
regulator Institute of Linguistics of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences NERFINISHED
Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training NERFINISHED
scriptAdopted Latin-based quốc ngữ in 17th century
subfamily Vietic
usedByDiasporaIn Australia NERFINISHED
Cambodia NERFINISHED
Canada NERFINISHED
Czech Republic NERFINISHED
France NERFINISHED
Germany NERFINISHED
Laos NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Vietnamese alphabet
chữ Quốc ngữ

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Vietic languages hasMember Kinh language