Countries
Vietnam
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3727
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Halo
Thank You
Cam on
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Sugeng énjing
Please
xin vui lòng
matur nuwun
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Tạm biệt
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Arekan
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
516
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
vietnamien
javanais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
c. 1440
450 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Javanese
Language Position
1411
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
jav
ISO 639 2/B
vie
jav
ISO 639 3
vie
jav
ISO 639 6
vie
jav
Glottocode
viet1252
java1253
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative