Countries
Vietnam
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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 in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Olonets
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Novgorod
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
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
viet1252
russ1263
Linguasphere
46-EBA
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Vietnamese and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Vietnamese and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Russian language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Russian Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Vietnamese and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.