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Countries

Countries
Vietnam

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Vietnam

Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Czech Republic

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.

Similar To
Chinese Language

Derived From
Chinese Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
37 19

Phonology

How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Xin chào

Thank You
Cam on

How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?

Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon

Good Evening
Chào buổi tối

Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa

Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng

Please
xin vui lòng

Sorry
Xin lỗi

Bye
Tạm biệt

I Love You
tôi yêu bạn

Excuse Me
Xin loi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese

Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00 11

Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese

Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00 9

Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese

Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00 8

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
91.00 million 16

Speaking Population
1.14 % 17

Native Speakers
75.00 million 14

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million 33

Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)

Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet

French Name
vietnamien

German Name
Vietnamesisch

Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)

Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people

History

Origin
c. 1440

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese

Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese

Language Position
14 13

Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
vi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
vie

ISO 639 2/B
vie

ISO 639 3
vie

ISO 639 6
vie

Glottocode
viet1252

Linguasphere
46-EBA

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating

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Know Alphabets in Vietnamese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Vietnamese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Vietnamese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Vietnamese. Vietnamese phonology gives Vietnamese vowels and Vietnamese consonants. There are 12 vowels and 21 consonants in Vietnamese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Vietnamese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Vietnamese language is given in detail in this section.

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All Vietnamese countries

Want to explore all Vietnamese countries? About Vietnamese language serves you with all Vietnamese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Vietnamese as official language are called as Vietnamese countries.

  • Countries that use Vietnamese as their National Language are: Vietnam.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Vietnamese as second language are: Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe.

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Learn Vietnamese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Vietnamese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Vietnamese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Vietnamese language.Learn Vietnamese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Xin chào
  • Thank you: Cam on
  • Good Morning: Chào buổi sáng
  • Good Evening: Chào buổi tối
  • Good Afternoon: Chào buổi trưa

All Vietnamese Language Codes

Get to know all Vietnamese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Vietnamese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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