I'm collecting the word "Việt Nam" in other languages Contribute if you can

Vietnamese: Việt Nam (Saigon/Southern Viet accent: Yiệc Nam)

Chinese: Yue Nan (Cantonese: Yuet Nam)

Japanese: Betonamo

Korean: 베트남 Betunam or 월남 Wolnam ?

Thai: Wiiat Naam?


Other languages?

English: Vietnam
French: Le Viet-Nam

Bhietnam (Scots Gaelic)

Biyetnam (Tagalog)

Etsunan - 越南 (former Japanese)

Fiet-nam (Welsh)

Vietnã (Brazilian Portuguese)

Vietname (Portuguese)

Vietnam (Catalan, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese variant, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)

Vietnam - Виетнам (Bulgarian)

Viëtnam (Dutch)

Vietnám - Βιετνάμ (Greek)

Vietnamas (Lithuanian)

Vijetnam (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian)

Vjetnamio (Esperanto)

V'yetnam - В'єтнам (Ukrainian)

Vyetnam - Вьетнам (Russian)

Wietnam (Polish)

^ So to them the letter V = B ?

A-nam-mit-ta (Southern California)

hmm, i think it's Vietname in european portuguese (vi-eht-NAH-muh) and Vietnã in brazilian portuguese (vi-eht-NANG) it's not really a 'nang' but it's more like a 'na' that's incredibly nasalized. i think that the only reason it's vietnã in brazil is because if it was vietname it'd be pronounced (vi-eht-NAH-mee) and that sounds weird...

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Hmong = Tebchaws Nyablaj

Without "tebchaws", it would just mean Vietnamese.

Cambodian (well at least US Cambodians-- I think the native ones cease to) : Srok Youn

is it pronounced the way its spelled?

no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_language#Orthography

i tihnk should sound like: te-chaih nya-la (tones would be high--> low--> high--> high-falling)

^__^

in some language, they can't pronounce the V

actually, Vietnamese V doesn't sound exactly like English V and it is also absolutely different from the Spanish V...The Spanish V is more like the B.
Vietnamese V is more like the Frech V I think.


really? interesting. would you mind explain me what each word means?

thier "B" is pronounced as "v",
they use another alphabet system. they can pronounce "v" (ofcourse) meanwhile they cant pronounce "w" properly.

wait, who is them?

I see


Bhietnam (Scots Gaelic)
Biyetnam (Tagalog)
V'yetnam - В'єтнам (Ukrainian)
Vyetnam - Вьетнам (Russian)

dunno about scots gaelic (celtic languages do not interest me at all...)

but for tagalog, there is no B in the tagalog language. mainly because there is no V sound in tagalog nor in spanish, so the language didn't even pick upt hat extra consonant from spanish (in spanish, written v's have either a b sound or a 'β' sound, which is the IPA symbol for a really soft b sound... lol) v's are only written when the word is a proper noun of spanish origin. (eg. a Mr. Villareal, the province of Nueva Vizcaya, etc etc)

and for ukranian and russian, it's a V sound. russian is written using the cyrillic alphabet, and the V sound is written with a B in this aplhabet. a 'B' sound is written with the letter 'Б'.

hope that helps clear things up. ^__^

My boss' wife is a Filip and she used to call me Wi instead of Vi. It took her a few weeks to pronounce it right. Well, sometimes she still calls me Wi.

Hey ham let, can you help me clear another thing?

People say that there is no V sound in Chinese, but I hear the V sound in Chinese all the time. Is it only me? I swear to Heaven, I listened to some chinese songs at friends house and I heard they said vee, vay many times...and in real life, I spotted some V sounds in Chinese language too. Why is that?

Do you know which Chinese dialect?

Because some dialects (Wu I believe) do have V sounds..

I don't know which dialect they speak. but the songs are probably in mandarin

Nah.
http://ww2.saturn.stpaul.k12.mn.us/Hmong/d...DS/v/vietnam.au



Right.



Tebchaws means country.
Nyablaj means Vietnamese.

Thanks!

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