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Countries

Countries

Vietnam
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Vietnam
Somalia

Second Language

Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

Czech Republic
Yemen

Regulated By

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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

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.
  • Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
  • One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Afar and Oromo Language

Derived From

Chinese Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Xin chào
Hello

Thank You

Cam on
Waad ku mahadsan tahay

How Are You?

Bạn khỏe không?
Sidee tahay ?

Good Night

Chúc ngủ ngon
Habeenka Good

Good Evening

Chào buổi tối
Evening Good

Good Afternoon

Chào buổi trưa
galab wanaagsan

Good Morning

Chào buổi sáng
Subax wanaagsan

Please

xin vui lòng
Fadlan

Sorry

Xin lỗi
sorry

Bye

Tạm biệt
caraysiiyo

I Love You

tôi yêu bạn
Waan ku jeclahay

Excuse Me

Xin loi
iga raali ahow

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Vietnamese
Northern Somali

Where They Speak

Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

North-central Vietnamese
Benaadir

Where They Speak

Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Mid-Central Vietnamese
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

76,000,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

91.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

75.00 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

16.00 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

tiếng việt (㗂越)
af Soomaali

Alternative Names

Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga

French Name

vietnamien
somali

German Name

Vietnamesisch
Somali

Pronunciation

[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[afsoomaali]

Ethnicity

Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Somalis

History

Origin

c. 1440
19th century

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

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Cushitic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Vietnamese
Somali

Language Position

1483
1 120
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Signed Forms

Vietnamese sign languages
Somali Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

vi
so

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

vie
som

ISO 639 2/B

vie
som

ISO 639 3

vie
som

ISO 639 6

vie
som

Glottocode

viet1252
soma1255

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
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Vietnamese and Somali Alphabets

Vietnamese and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Vietnamese and Somali. In Vietnamese Alphabets there are 37 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Vietnamese and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Vietnamese and Somali languages. The Vietnamese phonology consist Vietnamese vowels and Vietnamese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Vietnamese greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Vietnamese and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Vietnamese and Somali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Vietnamese and Somali dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Vietnamese and Somali Speaking population

Vietnamese and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Vietnamese and Somali on Vietnamese vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Somali Language Codes

Vietnamese and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Vietnamese and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.