Vietnamese Travel Phrases

Vietnamese

Vietnamese is used in Vietnam.

Shown using the modern, Latin-based Chu Quoc Ngu alphabet:

[Vietnamese as currently written using Chu Quoc Ngu]

Shown using the historical, Chinese-based Chu Nom writing system:

[Vietnamese as previously written using Chu Nom]

Because the Vietnamese alphabet contains a complex system of diacritical marks, various transliteration systems using just ASCII characters have been developed.

Vietnamese Quoted-Readable (VIQR) convention:

      Pho`ng to^i o+? dda^u

      Ba~i bie^?n o+? dda^u

      Qua'n ruo+.u o+? dda^u

      DDu+`ng ddu.ng to^i o+? cho^~ do'

   VSCII MNEMonic (VSCII-MNEM):
      Pho!ng to>i o*? dda>u

      Ba"i bie>?n o*? dda>u

      Qua'n ruo*.u o*? dda>u

      DDu*!ng ddu.ng to>i o*? cho>" do'

Language information at Wikipedia

Modern writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot

Historical writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot

Alternate names for Vietnamese include Viet Namese, Kinh, Gin, Jing, Ching, Viet, and Annamese

The four essential
travel phrases in English:

1) Where is my room?
2) Where is the beach?
3) Where is the bar?
4) Don't touch me there! Do you have a language or dialect to add?
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