VIETNAMESE (SOUTH) VOICE OVER TALENTS NATIVE SPEAKERS - PAGE 1

Vietnamese language
Native to: Vietnam
Native speakers: 75 million
Writing system: Latin (Vietnamese alphabet)
Capital city: Hanoi
Currency: Dong (VND)
Dialing code: +84
Country code: VN
Population: 90,730,000
Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 82 million people mainly in Vietnam. There are also Vietnamese speakers in the USA, China, Cambodia, France, Australia, Laos, Canada and a number of other countries. Vietnamese has been the official language of Vietnam since the country gained independence from France in 1954. Vietnamese was originally written with a Siniform (Chinese-like) script known as Ch?-nôm or Nôm. At first most Vietnamese literature was essentially Chinese in structure and vocabulary. Later literature developed a more Vietnamese style, but was still full of Chinese loan words. The greatest literary work in Vietnamese is Kim Van Kieu, the 'Tale of Kieu', a romance written by Nguyen-Du (1765-1820). Ch?-nôm was used until the 20th century. Courses in the Ch?-nôm script were available at Ho Chi Minh University until 1993, and the script is still studied and taught at the Han-Nôm Institute in Hanoi, which has recently published a dictionary of all the nôm characters. During the 17th century, Roman Catholic missionaries introduced a Latin-based orthography for Vietnamese, Qu?c Ng? (national language),which has been used ever since. Until the early 20th century, Qu?c Ng? was used in parallel with Ch?-nôm. Today only Qu?c Ng? is used.