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Vietnamese

Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam
Intangible natural_language Q9199
Vietnamese
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Summary

Vietnamese is a natural language[1]. Vietnamese ranks in the top 4% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,660 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: People's Republic of China[3], Vietnam[4]
  • Instance of: modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Vietic[6]
  • Writing system: Vietnamese alphabet[7], Vietnamese Braille[8], chữ Nôm[9], Latin script[10]
  • Commons category: Vietnamese language[11]
  • Wikimedia language code: vi[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vietnamese language[13]
  • Described at URL: http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/ALC/Languages/Vietnamese_popup.htm[14], http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/languages/Vietnamese_en.php[15], https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=666[16]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 76,000,000[17], 68,058,620[18]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/vietnamese[20], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/vietnamese[21]
  • Has characteristic: Sino-Xenic pronunciation[22]
  • Main Wikidata property: P5625[23]
  • Native label: Tiếng Việt[24]
  • Short name: вьетнамский[25], vyetnamca[26], виетнамӣ[27], вьетнамаг[28]
  • UNESCO language status: 1 safe[29]
  • Indigenous to: Jianping County[30], Vietnam[31], Guangxi[32], Shanxi[33]
  • Female form of label: la langue vietnamienne[34]
  • Studied by: Vietnamese studies[35]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/VIE[36]
  • Has tense: present tense[37], past tense[38], future tense[39]
  • Ethnologue language status: 1 National[40]
  • Linguistic typology: tonal language[41], subject–verb–object[42]

Why It Matters

Vietnamese has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Vietnamese is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Vietnamese has been cited as an influence by Globasa[45], an international auxiliary language[46], founded in 2019[47].

FAQs

Who did Vietnamese influence?

Vietnamese has been cited as an influence by Globasa[45].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q1581
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  2. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → vietnamese-language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: vietnamese-language, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289966978|vietnamese language (#289966978)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  3. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008025-vietnamstina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008025-vietnamstina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Nci thesaurus id → C120591
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 20090, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  5. 23w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Twitch tag id → ba3b69fe-899c-4518-ac46-707275e3eba1
    Ethnologue language status → 1 National
    Indigenous to → Jianping County, Vietnam, Guangxi +1
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 16, 'lon': 108}
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0042660"
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