Concept information
Preferred term
Type
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language
Definition
- Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ ) is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of Vietnamese people (Kinh), and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language or a first language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austro-Asiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austro-Asiatic languages put together). Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, and it was formerly written using the Chinese writing system, albeit in a modified format and was given vernacular pronunciation. As a byproduct of French colonial rule, the language displays some influence from French, and the Vietnamese alphabet (quốc ngữ) in use today is a Latin alphabet with additional diacritics for tones and certain vowels and consonants.
Entry terms
- Vietnamese language
is focus of
ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code
- vie
ISO 639-2 Terminological code
- vie
ISO 639-1 code
- vi
ISO 639-3 code
- vie
In other languages
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Viëtnamees
Afrikaans
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Vìyɛtnàmê
Aghem
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Viɛtnam kasa
Akan
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Vietnamisht
Albanian
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Gjuha vietnameze
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ቪትናምኛ
Amharic
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الفيتنامية
Arabic
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لغة فيتنامية
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Վիետնամերեն
Armenian
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Viêtnamien
Arpitan
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vietnamín
Asturian
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Vietnamita
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Kivietinamu
Asu
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vyetnamca
Azerbaijani
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riwyɛtnám
Bafia
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wiyɛtinamukan
Bambara
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ভিয়েতনামী
Bangla
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ভিয়েতনামীয় ভাষা
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Hɔp u vyɛ̄dnàm
Basaa
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vietnamera
Basque
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Vietnamera
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в'етнамская
Belarusian
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Ichi Vietinamu
Bemba
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Hivietinamu
Bena
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ቪትናምኛ
Blin
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वियेतनामी
Bodo
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вијетнамски
Bosnian
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vietnameg
Breton
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Vietnameg
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виетнамски
Bulgarian
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Виетнамски език
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ဗီယက်နမ်
Burmese
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越南話
Cantonese
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vietnamita
Catalan
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Vietnamita
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Taviṭnamit
Central Atlas Tamazight
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Vetnamhoyn mott
Chechen
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Oruviyetinaamu
Chiga
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越南语
Chinese
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Vijätnammeesesch
Colognian
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vijetnamski
Croatian
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Vijetnamski jezik
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vietnamština
Czech
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Vietnamština
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vietnamesisk
Danish
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Vietnamesisk
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Vietnamees
Dutch
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བེཊ་ནཱ་མིས་ཁ
Dzongkha
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فييتنامى
Egyptian Arabic
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Kĩvietinamu
Embu
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vjetnama
Esperanto
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Vjetnama lingvo
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vietnami
Estonian
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vietnamgbe
Ewe
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ǹkɔ́bɔ hiɛdənám
Ewondo
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Luenga vietnamita
Extremaduran
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vietnamesiskt
Faroese
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Vietnamese bhasa
Fiji Hindi
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Vietnamese
Filipino
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Finnish
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Vietnamin kieli
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vietnamien
French
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Vietnamien
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vietnamite
Friulian
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Wiyetnameere
Fulah
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vietnamita
Galician
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Lingua vietnamita
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Luvyetinaamu
Ganda
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ვიეტნამური
Georgian
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ვიეტნამური ენა
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Vietnamesisch
German
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Vietnamesische Sprache
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Βιετναμεζικά
Greek
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Βιετναμέζικη γλώσσα
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વિયેતનામીસ
Gujarati
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Kivietinamu
Gusii
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Ye̍t-nàm-ngî
Hakka Chinese
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Harshen Biyetinam
Hausa
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Wiekanama
Hawaiian
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ויאטנמית
Hebrew
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וייטנאמית
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वियेतनामी
Hindi
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वियतनामी भाषा
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vietnami
Hungarian
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Vietnami nyelv
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víetnamska
Icelandic
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Víetnamska
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Vietnamana linguo
Ido
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Viyetịnaamụ
Igbo
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Vietnam
Indonesian
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Bahasa Vietnam
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vietnamese
Interlingua
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Vítneamais
Irish
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An Vítneaimis
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vietnamita
Italian
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Lingua vietnamita
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ベトナム語
Japanese
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Basa Vietnam
Javanese
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vietnam
Jola-Fonyi
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vietnamita
Kabuverdianu
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Tabyiṭnamit
Kabyle
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vietnamimiusut
Kalaallisut
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Vietnamimiusut
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kutitab Vietnam
Kalenjin
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Kivietinamu
Kamba
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ವಿಯೇಟ್ನಾಮೀಸ್
Kannada
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ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮಿನ ಭಾಷೆ
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وِیَتنَمیٖز
Kashmiri
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вьетнам
Kazakh
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វៀតណាម
Khmer
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Kivietinamu
Kikuyu
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Ikinyaviyetinamu
Kinyarwanda
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Въет кыв
Komi
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베트남어
Korean
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Vietnaam senni
Koyraboro Senni
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Vietnaam senni
Koyra Chiini
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Kiɛl viɛtnam
Kwasio
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вьетнамча
Kyrgyz
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Lingua vietnameza
Ladino
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Kɨvietináamu
Langi
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ຫວຽດນາມ
Lao
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Lingua Vietnamica
Latin
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vjetnamiešu
Latvian
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Vjetnamiešu valoda
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liviyetinámi
Lingala
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L:越南語
Literary Chinese
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vietnamiečių
Lithuanian
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Vietnamiečių kalba
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Liviyetinamu
Luba-Katanga
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Kivietinamu
Luo
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Kivietinamu
Luyia
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виетнамски
Macedonian
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Виетнамски јазик
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Kyivietinamu
Machame
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Ivyetinamu
Makhuwa-Meetto
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Chivietinamu
Makonde
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Vietnamianina
Malagasy
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Bahasa Vietnam
Malay
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വിയറ്റ്നാമീസ്
Malayalam
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Vjetnamiż
Maltese
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Reo Whitinamu
Maori
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व्हिएतनामी
Marathi
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व्हियेतनामी भाषा
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nkʉtʉ́k ɔ́ɔ̄ lvietinamu
Masai
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Kĩvietinamu
Meru
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Oa̍t-lâm-gí
Min Nan Chinese
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vietnamien
Morisyen
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Vietnamiya
Mundang
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Vietnamǁî gowab
Nama
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भियतनामी
Nepali
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vietnamgiella
Northern Sami
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isi-Vietnamese
North Ndebele
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Vietnamesisk
Norwegian
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vietnamesisk
Norwegian Bokmål
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vietnamesisk
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Vietnamesisk
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Thok betnaamni
Nuer
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Oruviyetinaamu
Nyankole
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ଭିଏତନାମିଜ୍
Odia
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Afaan Veetinam
Oromo
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وېتنامي
Pashto
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ویتنامی
Persian
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زبان ویتنامی
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Lenga vietnamèis
Piedmontese
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wietnamski
Polish
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Język wietnamski
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vietnamita
Portuguese
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Língua vietnamita
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ਵਿਅਤਨਾਮੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
Punjabi
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Witnam simi
Quechua
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vietnameză
Romanian
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Limba vietnameză
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vietnamais
Romansh
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Kivietinamu
Rombo
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Ikinyaviyetinamu
Rundi
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вьетнамский
Russian
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Вьетнамский язык
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Kyivietinamu
Rwa
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Kivietinamu
Samburu
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Vietnäm
Sango
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Ishivietinamu
Sangu
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वियतनामी भाषा
Sanskrit
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Vietnamese leid
Scots
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Bhiet-Namais
Scottish Gaelic
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vietnamita
Sena
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Вијетнамски
Serbian
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Вијетнамски језик
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Vijetnamski jezik
Serbo-Croatian
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Kivietinamu
Shambala
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chiVietnam
Shona
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වියට්නාම්
Sinhala
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vietnamčina
Slovak
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vietnamščina
Slovenian
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Oluvyetinaamu
Soga
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Fiitnaamays
Somali
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Se-vietnam
Southern Sotho
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vietnamita
Spanish
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Idioma vietnamita
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Swedish
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Vietnamesiska
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Vietnamesisch
Swiss German
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ⵜⴰⴼⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎⵉⵜ
Tachelhit
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Wikang Biyetnames
Tagalog
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Kivietinamu
Taita
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Забони ветнамӣ
Tajik
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வியட்நாமிஸ்
Tamil
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வியட்நாமிய மொழி
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Vietnaam senni
Tasawaq
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వియత్నామీస్
Telugu
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Kivietinamu
Teso
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เวียดนาม
Thai
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ภาษาเวียดนาม
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ཡོ་ནན་སྐད།
Tibetan
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ቪትናምኛ
Tigre
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ቪትናምኛ
Tigrinya
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lea fakavietinemi
Tongan
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Vietnamese
Tswana
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Vietnamca
Turkish
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вʼєтнамська
Ukrainian
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В'єтнамська мова
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ویتنامی
Urdu
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ۋيېتنام تىلى
Uyghur
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Viyamíĩ
Vai
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Tiếng Việt
Vietnamese
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Kyivietinamu
Vunjo
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Vietnamesiš
Walser
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Fietnameg
Welsh
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Isi-Vietnamese
Xhosa
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nufiɛtnamíɛŋ
Yangben
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Èdè Vietnam
Yoruba
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Èdè Jetinamu
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Vietnaam senni
Zarma
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Vah Yiednamz
Zhuang
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isi-Vietnamese
Zulu