Countries
Vietnam
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Somalia
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Xin chào
Hello
Thank You
Cam on
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
Subax wanaagsan
Please
xin vui lòng
Fadlan
Sorry
Xin lỗi
sorry
Bye
Tạm biệt
caraysiiyo
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Xin loi
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
76,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
75.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
vietnamien
somali
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Somalis
Origin
c. 1440
19th century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Somali
Language Position
1483
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
vi
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
som
ISO 639 2/B
vie
som
ISO 639 3
vie
som
ISO 639 6
vie
som
Glottocode
viet1252
soma1255
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
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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