Countries
Vietnam
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Chinese Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
Ħello
Thank You
Cam on
Grazzi
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Kif int?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
xin vui lòng
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Skużani!
Bye
Tạm biệt
Ċaw
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Xin loi
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Qormi
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Malta
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Malta
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Not Present
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
-
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
52
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Malti
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Malti
French Name
vietnamien
maltais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Maltese
Origin
c. 1440
c. 1470
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Maltese
Language Position
1425
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
vie
mlt
ISO 639 3
vie
mlt
ISO 639 6
vie
mlt
Glottocode
viet1252
malt1254
Linguasphere
46-EBA
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic