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Name:
Vietnamese
Alternate Names:
Annamite; Annamese; Kinh; Gin; Jing; Ching; Viet
Spoken in:
USA, Viet Nam, Finland, Australia, France, Martinique, Senegal, China, Germany, Laos, Philippines, Côte d'Ivoire, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Norway, Thailand, Canada, Netherlands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia
Number of speakers:
65,800,000 in Viet Nam (1999 census). Population total all countries: 68,634,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
vie
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Austro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Vietnamese (viet)
Child Dialects:
Northern Vietnamese; Tonkinese; Hanoi; Hanoi Vietnamese (vie-nor)
Central Vietnamese; Hue; Hue Vietnamese (vie-cen)
Southern Vietnamese; Cochinchinese (vie-sou)

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