Countries
Vietnam
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Nepal
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Hindi
Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3748
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Cam on
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
xin vui lòng
कृपया
Sorry
Xin lỗi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Tạm biệt
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Doteli
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Nepal
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Nepal
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
vietnamien
népalais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1440
19 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Nepali
Language Position
1459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
vi
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
nep
ISO 639 2/B
vie
nep
ISO 639 3
vie
npi
ISO 639 6
vie
nep
Glottocode
viet1252
nepa1254
Linguasphere
46-EBA
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative