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Countries

Countries

Vietnam
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Vietnam
Japan

Second Language

Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Czech Republic
Palau

Regulated By

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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Korean Language

Derived From

Chinese Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3799
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2114
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Xin chào
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Cam on
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Bạn khỏe không?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Chúc ngủ ngon
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Chào buổi tối
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Chào buổi trưa
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Chào buổi sáng
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

xin vui lòng
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Xin lỗi
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Tạm biệt
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

tôi yêu bạn
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Xin loi
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Vietnamese
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

North-central Vietnamese
Hakata

Where They Speak

Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Mid-Central Vietnamese
Kansai

Where They Speak

Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
kansai

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

531
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

91.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

75.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

tiếng việt (㗂越)
日本語

Alternative Names

Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Nihongo

French Name

vietnamien
japonais

German Name

Vietnamesisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

c. 1440
1185

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Vietnamese
Japanese

Language Position

148
1 120
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Signed Forms

Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

vi
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

vie
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

vie
jpn

ISO 639 3

vie
jpn

ISO 639 6

vie
jpn

Glottocode

viet1252
nucl1643

Linguasphere

46-EBA
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Vietnamese and Japanese Alphabets

Vietnamese and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Vietnamese and Japanese. In Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Vietnamese and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Vietnamese and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Vietnamese and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Vietnamese and Japanese Speaking population

Vietnamese and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Vietnamese vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Japanese Language Codes

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