Countries
Vietnam
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Ethiopia
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
-
-
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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2131
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Selam
Thank You
Cam on
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
i'ndemin adäru
Please
xin vui lòng
i'bakwon
Sorry
Xin lỗi
aznallehu
Bye
Tạm biệt
tschao
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Xin loi
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Gondar
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Gondar
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Showa
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
55
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
vietnamien
amharique
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Amharas
Origin
c. 1440
13th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Amharic
Language Position
1455
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
amh
ISO 639 2/B
vie
amh
ISO 639 3
vie
amh
ISO 639 6
vie
amh
Glottocode
viet1252
amha1245
Linguasphere
46-EBA
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional