The Vietnamese alphabet, called quốc ngữ (national language), is the current writing system for the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Latin alphabet, with some digraphs and the addition of nine accent marks or diacritics — four of them to create additional sounds, and the other five to indicate the tone of each word. The many diacritics, often two on the same letter, makes written Vietnamese easily recognizable. Vietnamese alphabet - The letters. The Vietnamese alphabet has ...

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The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order: Vietnamese contains the 8 digraphs and 1 trigraph below, but these are not considered single letters: Ch Gh Gi Kh Ng Ngh Nh Ph Th Vietnamese alphabet - Vowels. The correspondence between the orthography and pronunciation is somewhat complicated, where a single letter either represents more than one different monophthongs, or both a monophthong and a diphthong(s), or wher ...

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The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order: A Ă Â B C D Đ E Ê G H I K L M N O Ô Ơ P Q R S T U Ư V X Y a ă â b c d đ e ê g< ...

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The Vietnamese language was first written down, from the 13th century onwards, using variant Chinese characters (chữ nôm 字喃), each of them representing one word. The system was based on the script used for writing classical Chinese (chữ nho), but it was supplemented with characters developed in Vietnam (chữ thuần nôm, proper Nom characters) to represent native Vietnamese words. As early as 1527, Portuguese Christian missionaries in Vietnam began using the Latin alphabet to transcribe the Vietnamese l ...

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The Vietnamese language was first written down, from the 13th century onwards, using variant Chinese characters (chữ nôm 字喃), each of them representing one word. The system based on the script used for writing classical Chinese (chữ nho), but it was supplemented with characters developed in Vietnam (chữ thuần nôm, proper Nom characters) to represent native Vietnamese. As early as 1527, Portuguese Christian missionaries in Vietnam began using the Latin alphabet to transcribe the Vietnamese language fo ...

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Vietnamese is a tonal language, i.e. the meaning of each word depends on the "tone" (basically a specific pitch and glottalization pattern) in which it is pronounced. There are six distinct tones; the first one ("level tone") is not marked, and the other five are indicated by diacritics applied to the main vowel of the syllable: The lowercase letter "i" should retain its dot even when accented. (However, this detail is often lost in computers and on the Internet, due to the obscurity of Vietnamese ...

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