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The Vietnamese alphabet contains 29 letters, including seven letters using four diacritics: ă , â , ê , ô , ơ , ư , and đ . There are an additional five diacritics used to designate tone (as in à , á , ả , ã , and ạ ).
Below is a table showing the Vietnamese alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word. Vietnamese Pronunciation. You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio.
Download an alphabet chart for Vietnamese (Excel) Hear the Vietnamese alphabet and pronunciation: You can also hear how to pronounce the Vietnamese letters and tones at:
The Vietnamese alphabet follows pretty much the same alphabetical order as the English alphabet. It consists of 29 letters, with 12 vowels and 17 consonants. There are just a handful of letters that are not present in the English alphabet, specifically 1 consonant and 6 vowels: đ - ă - â - ê - ô - ơ - ư.
The Vietnamese alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ in Vietnamese) is a version of the Latin alphabet used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses all of the letters of the ISO Basic Latin Alphabet except for F, J, W, and Z (which are only found in loanwords).
The Vietnamese alphabet is deceptively simple. Originally, it was written using a set of characters developed primarily in China which was a system known as chữ Hán Nôm.
Vietnamese words follow the structure: 1 optional consonant/consonant cluster + 1 compulsory Vowel/Vowel Cluster + 1 optional consonant/consonant cluster. There are 6 Vietnamese tones: 5 of which correspond to the 5 diacritics and the no-diacritic tone.
