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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Vietnam

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Vietnam

1.4 Second Language

Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Czech Republic

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Chinese Language

1.10 Derived From

Chinese Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

37
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Xin chào

3.2 Thank You

Cam on

3.3 How Are You?

Bạn khỏe không?

3.4 Good Night

Chúc ngủ ngon

3.5 Good Evening

Chào buổi tối

3.6 Good Afternoon

Chào buổi trưa

3.7 Good Morning

Chào buổi sáng

3.8 Please

xin vui lòng

3.9 Sorry

Xin lỗi

3.10 Bye

Tạm biệt

3.11 I Love You

tôi yêu bạn

3.12 Excuse Me

Xin loi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Northern Vietnamese

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

North-central Vietnamese

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Mid-Central Vietnamese

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

5
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

91.00 million
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

1.14 %
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

75.00 million
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

16.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

tiếng việt (㗂越)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet

5.3.4 French Name

vietnamien

5.3.5 German Name

Vietnamesisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)

5.5 Ethnicity

Vietnamese (Kinh) people

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1440

6.2 Language Family

Austroasiatic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Vietnamese

6.3.3 Language Position

14
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Vietnamese sign languages

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

vi

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

vie

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

vie

7.3 ISO 639 3

vie

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

viet1252

7.6 Linguasphere

46-EBA

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Vietnamese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Vietnamese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Vietnamese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Vietnamese. Vietnamese phonology gives Vietnamese vowels and Vietnamese consonants. There are 12 vowels and 21 consonants in Vietnamese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Vietnamese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Vietnamese language is given in detail in this section.

All Vietnamese countries

Want to explore all Vietnamese countries? About Vietnamese language serves you with all Vietnamese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Vietnamese as official language are called as Vietnamese countries.

  • Countries that use Vietnamese as their National Language are: Vietnam.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Vietnamese as second language are: Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Vietnamese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Vietnamese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Vietnamese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Vietnamese language.Learn Vietnamese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Xin chào
  • Thank you: Cam on
  • Good Morning: Chào buổi sáng
  • Good Evening: Chào buổi tối
  • Good Afternoon: Chào buổi trưa

All Vietnamese Language Codes

Get to know all Vietnamese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Vietnamese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.