Countries
Vietnam
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Cam on
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
xin vui lòng
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Xin lỗi
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Tạm biệt
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
China
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
vietnamien
tibétain
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
tibetan people
Origin
c. 1440
c. 650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
vi
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
bod
ISO 639 2/B
vie
tib
ISO 639 3
vie
bod
ISO 639 6
vie
bod
Glottocode
viet1252
tibe1272
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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