Countries
Countries
Vietnam
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Russia
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3733
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Xin chào
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Cam on
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
xin vui lòng
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Tạm biệt
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
извините(izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Olonets
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
513
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %2.33 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Русский
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Russki
French Name
vietnamien
russe
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Russians
History
Origin
c. 1440
1000 AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Russian
Language Position
147
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
vi
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
rus
ISO 639 2/B
vie
rus
ISO 639 3
vie
rus
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
viet1252
russ1263
Linguasphere
46-EBA
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic