Eurasia · ISO 639-3 vie · Glottocode viet1252
Vietnamese
Vietnamese's reference point lies in Eurasia. Glottolog lists it with not endangered status and in the Austroasiatic family, while CLDR suggests Latin.
- Language family
- Austroasiatic
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- CN · LA · VN
- Reference point
- 20.681, 105.774
Open research question
Which regional uses, multilingual settings, self-designations, and institutional norms of Vietnamese require separate documentation across the listed countries?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.