Countries
Vietnam
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Cam on
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
xin vui lòng
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Tạm biệt
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Mappila
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
India
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
vietnamien
malayalam
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Malayali
Origin
c. 1440
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Malayalam
Language Position
1429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
mal
ISO 639 2/B
vie
mal
ISO 639 3
vie
mal
ISO 639 6
vie
mal
Glottocode
viet1252
mala1464
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic