Vietnamese Translation

Vietnamese translation needs to be precise.  Vietnamese is the national language of Vietnam and spoken by more than 80 million people including 86% if Vietnam’s native Vietnamese population, and many Vietnamese in Australia. It is also used as a second language by the ethnic minorities in Vietnam.  Vietnamese belongs to the Austroasiatic family of languages and it’s by far the most popular language from this category. Vietnamese displays strong similarities with Cantonese in terms of specific intonation and plosive endings of consonant sounds. It has been strongly influenced by Chinese given China’s political and military dominion in the region in 2^nd century BC. The vocabulary consists of many Sino-Vietnamese terms. The language has also adopted French words which underwent a metamorphosis after Vietnamization.. Since the 19^th century French invasion of Vietnam the Romanized script has been used.  Your Vietnamese translation needs to take into account the history and culture of the vietnamese language.

Your Vietnamese translation and interpreter services should understand that Vietnamese is a tonal language with 6 distinct tones. Even if the spelling of a particular word stays constant the meaning is changed depending on the pitch and tone of the speaker. The tone also affects the meaning of the sentence. The 6 tones are the mid level, the breathy low falling, the high rising, the rising mid dipping, the rising high breaking and the constricted short low falling.  This is particularly important when looking for a Vietnamese interpreter.

Your vietnamese translation should ensure that the classifier used for nouns and verbs are not based on the tense, number, gender, case or subject verb agreement. Rather there are special qualifiers that mark the nouns and verbs for inanimate or animate object, vehicles, important people, books etc. Native English speakers usually encounter a problem with the compounding and reduplication used in the language. Sometime a part of the word or even the entire word is repeated to indicate state, intensity, repetition, plural or extension. Many proper nouns like names of animals, birds, fruits etc are also reduplicted.

The word order of Vietnamese is very stringent since there is no inflection. There are three distinct dialects which correspond to the three major regions of Vietnam. Northern Vietnamese is regarded as the standard dialect and is a prestige dialect. The other two dialects are Central Vietnamese and Southern Vietnamese. The dialects vary in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation yet they remain mutually intelligible.  Get your quality Vietnamese translation today.