Countries
Vietnam
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Vietnam
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Xin chào
Silaw
Thank You
Cam on
Sipas
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Bayanit bash
Please
xin vui lòng
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Bibûre
Bye
Tạm biệt
Be xêr çî
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.14 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
16.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
vietnamien
kurde
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Kurds
Origin
c. 1440
16th century CE
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Kurdish
Language Position
1414
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
vi
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
kur
ISO 639 2/B
vie
kur
ISO 639 3
vie
kur
ISO 639 6
vie
kur
Glottocode
viet1252
kurd1259
Linguasphere
46-EBA
58-AAA-a
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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