Countries
Vietnam
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Total No. Of Countries
132
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
France
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
-
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Italian Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
bonjour
Thank You
Cam on
Merci
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Bonjour
Please
xin vui lòng
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
Xin lỗi
désolé
Bye
Tạm biệt
au revoir
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Excuse Moi
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Quebec French
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
African French
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Africa
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00274,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Northeast France, Switzerland
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
525
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %1.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
français
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Français
French Name
vietnamien
français
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
French people
Origin
c. 1440
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard French
Language Position
1413
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
fr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
fra
ISO 639 2/B
vie
fre
ISO 639 3
vie
fra
ISO 639 6
vie
fras
Glottocode
viet1252
stan1290
Linguasphere
46-EBA
51-AAA-i
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic