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Vietnamese Language MP3 New Testament, February 7, 2011
This review is from: Vietnamese Language / Version: 1998 United Bible Societies (Old Version) / is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people, who constitute 86% of Vietnam's population (MP3 CD)
MP3 New Testametn CD in Vietnamese Cadman Language
Language: Vietnamese
Version: 1998 United Bible Societies (Old Version)
Available Option: New Testament -Drama
Vietnamese (ti'ng Vi't, or less commonly Vi't ng') is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several times larger than the other Austroasiatic languages put together).[citation needed] Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, most notably Cantonese, especially words that denote abstract ideas (in the same way European languages borrow from Latin and Greek), 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 writing system in use today is an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, with additional diacritics for tones and certain letters.
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