Countries
Vietnam
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3728
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
您好
Thank You
Cam on
谢谢
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
你好吗？
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
晚安
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
下午好
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
早上好
Please
xin vui lòng
请
Sorry
Xin lỗi
遗憾
Bye
Tạm biệt
再见
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
我爱你
Excuse Me
Xin loi
原谅我
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
vietnamien
cantonais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1440
17th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
vi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
yue
ISO 639 2/B
vie
yue
ISO 639 3
vie
No data available
ISO 639 6
vie
yue
Glottocode
viet1252
cant1236
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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