Austroasiatic family
Vietnamese
c. 1850 CE – today Living
Vietnamese (c. 1850 CE – today) is a living Austroasiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Austroasiatic → Proto-Vietic → Middle Vietnamese → Vietnamese.
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- 85M (85,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- vie
- Glottocode
- viet1252
National language of Vietnam, heavily influenced by Chinese vocabulary; tonal, unlike most Austroasiatic languages.
Lineage
- Proto-Austroasiaticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
- Proto-Vieticc. 500 BCE – 1000 CE
- Middle Vietnamesec. 1500 CE – 1850 CE
- Vietnamesec. 1850 CE – today