Countries
Vietnam
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
South Africa
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Chinese Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2143
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Molo
Thank You
Cam on
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Unjani
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Molo
Please
xin vui lòng
Ndicela
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Tạm biệt
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
South Africa
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Thembu
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
South Africa
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
South Africa
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
59
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
vietnamien
xhosa
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1440
16th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
isiXhosa
Language Position
1421
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
xho
ISO 639 2/B
vie
xho
ISO 639 3
vie
xho
ISO 639 6
vie
xho
Glottocode
viet1252
xhos1239
Linguasphere
46-EBA
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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