The Vietnamese alphabet is the modern writing script for the Vietnamese language. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Francisco de Pina (1585–1625), a missionary See more

Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet … See more

Pronunciation
The correspondence between the orthography and pronunciation is somewhat … See more

In the past, syllables in multisyllabic words were concatenated with hyphens, but this practice has died out and hyphenation is now reserved for word … See more

The alphabet is largely derived from Portuguese with some influence from French , although the usage of ⟨gh⟩ and ⟨gi⟩ was borrowed from Italian (compare ghetto See more

Vietnamese is a tonal language, so the meaning of each word depends on the pitch in which it is pronounced. Tones are marked in the IPA as suprasegmentals following the … See more

Since the beginning of the Chinese rule 111 BC, literature, government papers, scholarly works, and religious scripture were all written in classical Chinese (漢文 Hán văn) … See more