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How to pronounce vietnamese

IPA transcription: [vi,ɛtnɑ'mis]

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[vi,ɛtnɑ'mis]

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[vi,ɛtnɑ'mis]

Quality: 0.88

[vi,ɛtnɑ'mis]

Quality: 0.88

Noun

  • a native or inhabitant of Vietnam

  • the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam

Adjective

  • of or relating to or characteristic of Vietnam or its people or its language ; ; the Vietnamese tonesVietnamese boat people"

    “the Vietnamese countryside”

    “; ”

Usage examples

  • In the Vietnamese zodiac, the cat replaces the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac.
  • Chinese and Vietnamese classical poetry and prose have frequently made use of parallelism.
  • During the colonial period, the French did transform Vietnamese society.
  • Vietnamese teas are produced in many areas that have been known for tea-house "retreats".
  • The cosmopolitan exchange was facilitated by the marriage of Vietnamese women to Portuguese merchants.
  • In the meantime, anti-Vietnamese movements were formed along the Cambodian-Thai border.
  • See Vietnamese phonology.
  • Her mother was French and her father was Vietnamese.
  • Before the area was settled by ethnic Vietnamese, the Khmer people practiced Theravada Buddhism.
  • Fried eggs are also sometimes used in a Vietnamese breakfast roll.