Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
321
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France
Vietnam
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Czech Republic
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
- 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
Italian Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Latin
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2637
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bonjour
Xin chào
Thank You
Merci
Cam on
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
bonsoir
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
Bonjour
Chào buổi sáng
Please
S'il vous plaît
xin vui lòng
Sorry
désolé
Xin lỗi
Bye
au revoir
Tạm biệt
I Love You
Je t'aime
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Africa
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
255
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Français
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
français
vietnamien
German Name
Französisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
French people
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
9th Century
c. 1440
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Romance
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
1314
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fr
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
vie
ISO 639 2/B
fre
vie
ISO 639 3
fra
vie
ISO 639 6
fras
vie
Glottocode
stan1290
viet1252
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating