Xin chào!
say it: “sin chow”
Vietnamese
in its own words: tiếng Việt
- Speakers
- 86 million (estimate)
- Family
- Austroasiatic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Vietnam
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Vietnam
Fun fact
Vietnamese is written in Latin script with diacritics; a single letter can carry two marks, one for vowel quality and one for tone.