Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
من فضلك
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
arabe
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating