Vietnamese alphabet

E1288

The Vietnamese alphabet is a modern Latin-based writing system that uses additional diacritics to represent the tones and specific sounds of the Vietnamese language.

All labels observed (6)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin-based script
alphabet
writing system
developedFrom Latin alphabet
excludesLetter F
J
W
Z
hasBaseLetter A
B
C
D
E
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
X
Y
Â
Ê
Ô
Ă
Đ
Ơ
Ư
hasCaseDistinction uppercase and lowercase
hasDiacritic breve
circumflex
horn
hasNumberOfConsonantLetters 17
hasNumberOfLetters 29
hasNumberOfVowelLetters 12
hasToneMark acute accent
dot below
grave accent
hook above
tilde
hasToneMarks five tone marks
officialScriptOf Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
primaryUse modern Vietnamese
replacedWritingSystem chữ Hán
chữ Nôm
representsNumberOfTones 6
standardizedInCentury 20th century
usesDiacriticsFor consonant distinction
tones
vowel quality
usesDigraph CH
GH
GI
KH
NG
NH
PH
QU
TH
TR
usesScript Latin script
usesTrigraph NGH
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemFor Vietnamese language
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latin alphabet writingSystemFor Vietnamese language
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Latin alphabet influenced Vietnamese alphabet
Vietnamese alphabet writingSystemFor Vietnamese language
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Republic of Vietnam writingSystem Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Thuy transliterationStandard Vietnamese quốc ngữ
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Xuan hasTransliterationStandard Vietnamese quốc ngữ
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Kinh writingSystem Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet (Quốc Ngữ)
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Kinh people writingSystem Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ)
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Ngo hasWritingSystem Vietnamese alphabet
Nguyễn romanizationSystem Vietnamese quốc ngữ
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet
Vietic languages writingSystemFor Vietnamese alphabet
Chữ Nôm replacedBy Vietnamese alphabet
Viet writingSystem Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet (Quốc Ngữ)
linked to: Vietnamese alphabet