Countries
Vietnam
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Nigeria
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
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Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3736
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
kedụ
Thank You
Cam on
dalụ
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
xin vui lòng
Biko
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Ndo
Bye
Tạm biệt
Kachifo
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Xin loi
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Enuani
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Not present
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
igbo
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Ibo
French Name
vietnamien
igbo
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Igbo people
Origin
c. 1440
30th Century BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
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 Igbo
Language Position
1457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
vie
ibo
ISO 639 3
vie
ibo
ISO 639 6
vie
ibo
Glottocode
viet1252
nucl1417
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative