Question

Do lots of Vietnamese speak Cantonese?

Answer 1

I can't say it's yes.

But basiclly, there are many Chinese Vietnamese who come from Guang Tong there, special in Ho Chi Minh city or Saigon (same other countries). These people and most of their children do speak Cantonese. Meanwhile lot's of people learning Chinese, most of them going for Manderine so most of time Manderine would be little bit more popular.

Answer 2

wrong and never.

Answer 3

The Vietnamese can answer this best but in my travels in Indochina, the main ethnic chinese group is the Teochew not the Cantonese. In fact the Cantonese in the main do not migrate to South East Asia. There are some scatterings in Kuala Lumpur and North Borneo but mainly the Cantonese migrate out to western world

Answer 4

If you asked about historical heritages then no. Vietnamese and Cantonese are two totally different languages.

Canton used to be called 百越，Vietnam the word came from a phrase 百越之南，越南，it means south over 百越。Vietnamese have their own language system, they borrowed some Chinese characters to build their written language 喃字 (Chữ Nôm) in the past, after French invasion, Vietnamese adopted Latin alphabet and created a new written language Tiếng Việt. Their language has never been related to any dialect of Chinese.

Edit:

Duy Inoue Le Thu · 1 upvote from Eamon Dan

New writing name is not tieng viet lol it call quoc ngu and the writing was invented befor the french colony ( by jesus ) french just made it one of the official writing beside chu Nho and Nom it was vietminh who push for quoc ngu so we can teach people to read / write faster

Answer 5

Vietnamese are proud of their own language and culture. They do not speak Cantonese on average unless they have learned it. On the other hand, it is more likely that a Vietnamese of Chinese decent would know some Cantonese and Teowchiew, depending on how much their parents passed on the language heritage to them.