Vietnamese

Vietnamese translation services

Classification

Austro-Asiatic > Mon-Khmer

Script

Roman

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

65 million

Other names

Official language

Vietnam

Also spoken

Cambodia, Hong Kong

Interesting Fact

In Vietnamese, siblings are often given the same middle name to distinguish them from other generations in their family.

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Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken in Vietnam. Another well-known language in this group is Cambodian.

Vietnamese is the national language of Vietnam and also has been officially recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic, which provides the Vietnamese community there the right to use Vietnamese with public authorities anywhere in the country. In the USA, it is the 6th most spoken language.

Initially, Vietnamese was written with two Chinese scripts. The influence of Chinese meant that some 30-60% of Vietnamese vocabulary has been naturalized from Chinese. Today Vietnamese uses the Latin script with additional diacritics and digraphs.

It is a tonal language, like Chinese, where the meaning of the word changes depending on the tone. Furthermore, each syllable is written separately as if it was a separate word (i.e. in English it would be written: wri-ting-sys-tem”).

Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting

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