How to count in Vietnamese (tiếng việt / 㗂越), a Vietic language spoken mainly in Vietnam.
Two kinds of numbers are used in Vietnamese: Native Vietnamese numbers, and Sino-Vietnamese numbers, which are borrowed from Chinese and are not much used these days. The Native Vietnamese numbers are written with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, and used to be written with the Chữ Nôm script, and the Sino-Vietnamese numbers are written with either the Quốc Ngữ alphabet or the Hán tự script (Chinese characters).
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Notes
- 1 is pronounced mốt in numbers from 21 to 91
- 5 is usually pronunced lăm in numbers from 15-95 to avoid confusion with homophones
- 10 is pronounced mươi in numbers from 20 to 99
1-100 in Vietnamese by Greg Vanderford
An introduction to Vietnamese numbers by Greg Vanderford
Information and recordings by Greg Vanderford
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Links
Information about Vietnamese numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_numerals http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vietnamese/Numbers http://mylanguages.org/vietnamese_numbers.php http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/vietnamese.html
Learn to Speak Vietnamese Like a Native, an online course by Greg Vanderford https://www.udemy.com/learn-to-speak-vietnamese-like-a-native/
Information about Vietnamese | Chữ-nôm script | Phrases | Colours | Numbers | Time | Dates | Family words | Tower of Babel | Books about Vietnamese on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
Numbers in Vietic languages
Kri, Muong, Vietnamese
Numbers in other languages
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