Vietnamese Language Resources

Homegrown Resources

Tables showing the basic pronounciation of Vietnamese consonants, vowels and vowel combinations
vowels_dictionary.html

Listen to examples of Vietnamese vowels in use
vowel_examples.html

MP3 Dialogs from Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the Uni of Wisconsin, Madison. http://www.seasite.niu.edu/
index.html

Wikipedia entries

Vietnamese alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet
Has an excellent section of how the written vowels and consonants are pronounced.

Vietnamese language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language
A good general introduction to the language.

Vietnamese phonology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology

IPA links

Clickable IPA Phonetic Alphabet chart
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

Another IPA sound chart
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm

A neat flash IPA chart with some useful mouse overs
http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html

IPA chart in HTML with link to neat keyboard for writing the code
http://www.linguiste.org/phonetics/ipa/chart/

http://www.linguistlist.org/unicode/ipa.html

Interactive Sagittal Section - shows how your mouth looks for various IPA letters
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

Vietnamese vowels

Vietnamese Online Grammar
http://www.vietnamese-grammar.group.shef.ac.uk/grammar_en.php?ID=37&LANG=_en
Extentisive detailed information on Vietnamese vowels, dipththongs and triphthongs

Vowel / consonant pronounciation guide from Langenscheidt pocket dictionary
vowels_dictionary.html

Other bits and pieces

IPA consonants tables (collection)
ipa_consonants_viet.html

chapter 1, pg12

lession 1