Countries
Vietnam
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Philippines
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3721
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2116
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Hoy
Thank You
Cam on
Salamat
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Maayong Buntag
Please
xin vui lòng
Palihug
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Tạm biệt
Babay
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Boholano
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Bohol
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
North Kana
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
vietnamien
cebuano
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Cebuano people
Origin
c. 1440
16th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian 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 Cebuano
Language Position
1462
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
vie
ceb
ISO 639 3
vie
ceb
ISO 639 6
vie
ceb
Glottocode
viet1252
cebu1242
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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