Countries
Countries
Vietnam
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Vietnam
Thailand
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Not Available
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3744
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1232
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2144
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Xin chào
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
Cam on
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
xin vui lòng
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
Tạm biệt
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Isan
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Isan
How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
59
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.85 %
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
75.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
vietnamien
thaï
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
History
Origin
c. 1440
1283 CE
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tai
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Thai
Language Position
1447
1
120
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Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
vi
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
tha
ISO 639 2/B
vie
tha
ISO 639 3
vie
tha
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
viet1252
thai1261
Linguasphere
46-EBA
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating