Countries
Countries
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3737
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2146
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Xin chào
Mhoro
Thank You
Cam on
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Masikati
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Mangwanani
Please
xin vui lòng
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Ndineurombo
Bye
Tạm biệt
bye
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Pamusoro
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Karanga
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
vietnamien
shona
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Shona people
History
Origin
c. 1440
20th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Shona
Language Position
14107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
vi
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
sna
ISO 639 2/B
vie
sna
ISO 639 3
vie
sna
ISO 639 6
vie
sna
Glottocode
viet1252
core1255
Linguasphere
46-EBA
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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