Countries
Vietnam
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3726
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Cam on
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
xin vui lòng
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Tạm biệt
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Wu
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Yue
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
510
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
vietnamien
chinois
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Han
Origin
c. 1440
1250 BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Chinese
Language Position
141
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
zho
ISO 639 2/B
vie
chi
ISO 639 3
vie
zho
ISO 639 6
vie
zho
Glottocode
viet1252
sini1245
Linguasphere
46-EBA
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating