Vietnamese baguette

We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Vietnamese baguette is a member of the Vietic branch of the Austroasiatic language family. It is spoken mainly in Vietnam by about 73. 2 million Vietnamese speakers in other countries, including 1.

4 million in the USA, 817,800 in Cambodia, 277,000 in Australia, 194,000 in Taiwan, 156,000 in Canada and 101,000 in Malaysia . Traditionally Vietnamese is classified as a member of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family. However, recently linguists have proposed that Vietnamese and Muong should be classified as a separate branch of that family, called Vietic or Viet-Muong. Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam, and is spoken by the majority of the population as a native language. Ethnic minority groups speak it as a second language. Vietnamese is also known as Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh or Viet. The main dialects are Northern, Central and Southern, and in each region there are numerous subdialects.

Chinese texts were read with Vietnamese pronunciation, and many Chinese words were borrowed into Vietnamese, to create a Sino-Vietnamese form of language. At first most Vietnamese literature was essentially Chinese in structure and vocabulary. Later literature developed a more Vietnamese style, but was still full of Chinese loan words. Chữ-nôm was used until the 20th century.