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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Vietnam
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Vietnam
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Chinese Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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37
Rank: 19 (Overall)
28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 2 (Overall)
10
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Xin chào
您好
3.2 Thank You
Cam on
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
早上好
3.8 Please
xin vui lòng
3.9 Sorry
Xin lỗi
遗憾
3.10 Bye
Tạm biệt
再见
3.11 I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Xin loi
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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5
Rank: 5 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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91.00 million
Rank: 16 (Overall)
60.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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1.14 %
Rank: 16 (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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75.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
52.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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16.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
vietnamien
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Vietnamesisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1440
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
vi
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
vie
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
vie
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
vie
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
viet1252
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available

Vietnamese and Cantonese Alphabets

Vietnamese and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Vietnamese and Cantonese. In Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Vietnamese and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Vietnamese and Cantonese languages. The Vietnamese phonology consist Vietnamese vowels and Vietnamese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Vietnamese greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Vietnamese and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Vietnamese and Cantonese 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 Vietnamese and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Vietnamese and Cantonese Speaking population

Vietnamese and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Vietnamese and Cantonese on Vietnamese vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Cantonese Language Codes

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

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