Countries
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3754
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1218
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Cam on
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
xin vui lòng
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Tạm biệt
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
vietnamien
singhalais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 1440
3
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
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
sin
ISO 639 2/B
vie
sin
ISO 639 3
vie
sin
ISO 639 6
vie
sin
Glottocode
viet1252
sinh1246
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional