Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)

Vietnamese (vi, vie) is a world language. Wikidata records about 76M speakers. It is written in Latin script and Vietnamese alphabet. It is an official language in 1 country, including Vietnam.

Vietnamese uses Latin script with many stacked diacritics; words are mostly single syllables, so text expands.

Expect text translated from English into Vietnamese to grow by roughly 20–40%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.

In the United States, 1,562,558 people aged 5+ speak Vietnamese at home (Census ACS), and 901,832 of them (58%) speak English less than "very well" — a key indicator of demand for Vietnamese translators and interpreters.

Translation guides

• English → Vietnamese translation
• Vietnamese → English translation

Where Vietnamese is official

• Vietnam

Rates for Vietnamese translation

Vietnamese falls in our south & southeast asian band: roughly $0.06–$0.14 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

Where Vietnamese is spoken in the US, state by state →