Countries
Vietnam
Madagascar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3721
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Salama!
Thank You
Cam on
Misaotra
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Manao ahoana!
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Alina tsara
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Manao ahoana e
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Manao ahoana e
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Maraina tsara
Please
xin vui lòng
azafady
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Miala tsiny
Bye
Tạm biệt
Veloma!
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Tiako ianao.
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Azafady
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Eastern Malagasy
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Merina
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Western Malagasy
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Sakalava
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Plateau Malagasy
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
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How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
52
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.28 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million18.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million18.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Fiteny Malagasy
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Malagasy Sign Language
French Name
vietnamien
malgache
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Malagassi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Malagasy people
Origin
c. 1440
1000 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
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Austronesian
Branch
-
Indonesian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
standard Malagasy
Language Position
1484
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Malagasy Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
vi
mg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
mlg
ISO 639 2/B
vie
mlg
ISO 639 3
vie
mlg
ISO 639 6
vie
mlg
Glottocode
viet1252
mala1537
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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