Countries
Vietnam
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
South Africa
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
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Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3732
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
hallo
Thank You
Cam on
Dankie
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
goeie nag
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
goeie more
Please
xin vui lòng
asseblief
Sorry
Xin lỗi
jammer
Bye
Tạm biệt
Totsiens
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Namibia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cape Dutch
French Name
vietnamien
afrikaans
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 1440
17th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
1423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
afr
ISO 639 2/B
vie
afr
ISO 639 3
vie
afr
ISO 639 6
vie
afrs
Glottocode
viet1252
afri1274
Linguasphere
46-EBA
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic