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Japanese and Vietnamese

Countries

Countries

Japan
Vietnam

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Vietnam

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Asia

Minority Language

Palau
Czech Republic

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Not Available

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Chinese Language

Derived From

Not Available
Chinese Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9937
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Xin chào

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Cam on

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Bạn khỏe không?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Chúc ngủ ngon

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Chào buổi tối

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Chào buổi trưa

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Chào buổi sáng

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
xin vui lòng

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Xin lỗi

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Tạm biệt

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
tôi yêu bạn

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Xin loi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Northern Vietnamese

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00NA
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
North-central Vietnamese

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa

How Many People Speak

NANA
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Mid-Central Vietnamese

Where They Speak

kansai
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien

How Many People Speak

NANA
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

315
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million91.00 million
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %1.14 %
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million75.00 million
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

NA16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
tiếng việt (㗂越)

Alternative Names

Not Available
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet

French Name

japonais
vietnamien

German Name

Japanisch
Vietnamesisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Vietnamese (Kinh) people

History

Origin

1185
c. 1440

Language Family

Japonic Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Not Available
Not Available

Branch

Not Available
Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard Vietnamese

Language Position

814
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Vietnamese sign languages

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
vi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
vie

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
vie

ISO 639 3

jpn
vie

ISO 639 6

Not Available
Not Available

Glottocode

nucl1643
viet1252

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
46-EBA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Japanese and Vietnamese Alphabets

Japanese and Vietnamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Vietnamese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters. To learn Japanese and Vietnamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Vietnamese languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Vietnamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Vietnamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Vietnamese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Vietnamese dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Vietnamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Vietnamese Dialects are spoken in different Vietnamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Vietnamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese , North-central Vietnamese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Vietnamese Speaking population

Japanese and Vietnamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Vietnamese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Vietnamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Vietnamese on Japanese vs Vietnamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Vietnamese Language Codes

Japanese and Vietnamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Vietnamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.