Vietnamese Translation Services

Vietnamese (ti?ng Vi?t, or less commonly Vi?t ng?), formerly known as Annamite (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people (ngu?i Vi?t or ngu?i Kinh), who constitute between 88% and 90% of Vietnam's population and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, including a significant number of individuals of Vietnamese heritage in the United States, as well as elsewhere. It is also spoken as a second language by some ethnic minorities of Vietnam. It is part of the Austroasiatic language family, of which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (three to four times the number of speakers of Khmer, the second most spoken Austroasiatic language). However, it contains much vocabulary borrowed from Chinese and was originally written using the Chinese writing system. The predominant Vietnamese writing system in use today is an adapted version of the Latin alphabet, though the Chu Nom system, based on Chinese characters, was also formerly employed.

VIETNAMESE
According to traditional legends, Viet Nam was formed when King Lac Long Quan (also known as the "Dragon Lord of Lac" or the "Dragon Lord of the Seas") married Princess Au Co (a Chinese immortal and descended from the High Mountains). She bore him 100 eggs, out of which 100 sons were born. They soon established a nation that stretched from southern China to northern Indonesia.

However, the King and the Princess became convinced that their different origins would ultimately make them unhappy, so they separated. Princess Au Co took 50 of the sons with her back into the mountains while King Lac Long Quan took the other 50 sons and ruled over the lowlands. After the King died in 2879 B.C., his eldest son, Hung Vuong established the Hung dynasty, and he is regarded as the real founder of the Vietnamese nation and of the first Vietnamese dynasty.

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The final decade of the 20th century has witnessed the growth of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) into an organisation embracing all ten countries in the region. The shared interest in peace, stability and development of each country and the entire region have bound all South East Asian nations together in a greater ASEAN family, transcending their differences in socio-political systems, cultures, customs, religions and economic development levels. Years of division, prejudice and hostility are now something of the past.