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The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'Characters/script of the national language', IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ kuək̚˧˦ ŋɨ˦ˀ˥] ) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese .
The Vietnamese alphabet contains 29 letters, supplementing the Latin alphabet with an additional consonant letter and 6 additional vowel letters (ă, â/ê/ô, ơ, ư) formed with diacritics. The Latin letters f, j, w and z are not used.
Native name: tiếng việt [tĭəŋ vìəˀt] / [tǐəŋ jìək] Language family: Austroasiatic, Vietic, Viet-Muong. Number of speakers: c. 76 million. Spoken in: Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos. First written: 13th century. Writing system: Chữ-nôm script, Latin script. Status: official language in Vietnam. Recognised minority language in the Czech Republic.
Chữ Nôm is the logographic writing system of the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Chinese writing system but adds a large number of new characters to make it fit the Vietnamese language. Common historical terms for chữ Nôm were Quốc Âm (國音, 'national sound') and Quốc ngữ (國語, 'national language').
Hệ chữ viết là một phương pháp lưu trữ thông tin và chuyển giao tin nhắn (thể hiện suy nghĩ hoặc ý tưởng) được tổ chức (thông thường được chuẩn hóa) trong một ngôn ngữ bằng cách mã hóa và giải mã theo cách trực quan (hoặc có thể gián tiếp).
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
The main Vietnamese term used for Chinese characters is chữ Hán (𡨸漢). It is made of chữ meaning 'character' and Hán 'Han (referring to the Han dynasty)'. Other synonyms of chữ Hán includes chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally ' Confucian characters') and Hán tự[a] (漢字) which was borrowed directly from Chinese.
