Countries
Vietnam
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Latvia
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
Sveiki
Thank You
Cam on
Paldies
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Labdien
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Labrīt
Please
xin vui lòng
lūdzu
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Piedodiet!
Bye
Tạm biệt
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Livonian
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Latvia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Latvia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
High Latvian
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million1.75 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Lettish
French Name
vietnamien
letton
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Latvians or Letts
Origin
c. 1440
1530
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Latvian
Language Position
149
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
vi
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
lav
ISO 639 2/B
vie
lav
ISO 639 3
vie
lav
ISO 639 6
vie
lav
Glottocode
viet1252
latv1249
Linguasphere
46-EBA
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic