Verse:Irta/Dano-Vietnamese Wiebisch

The Latin-based Vietnamese orthography, Cwốc-Ngữ, was developed by an Albionian missionary.

Tiếng Việt is written Tiếng Wiệt.

• Initial /v/ and medial /w/ = w
  • Nguyễn = Ngwiễn
• Initial /w/ (underlyingly /ʔw/) = v
• /f tʰ kʰ~x/ = φ θ χ
  • phở = φở, điện thoại = dyện-θwại
• s x = s sc (earlier sċ)
  • xã hội = scã-hội
• nh ch gi = ni ti j
• đ d = d ð
  • /i iə/ is always spelled y yê, not i ia/iê after n t d θ.
• -nh -ch = -(i)ng -(i)c
• c/k = always c; gh = always g; ng/ngh = always ng
• tr = tr

Vowel spellings and tones are identical to our Vietnamese.

• /iə ɨə uə/ are always spelled iê ươ uô.