1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Vietnam
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Czech Republic
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
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Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
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Chinese Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Bạn khỏe không?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Chúc ngủ ngon
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Chào buổi tối
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Chào buổi trưa
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Chào buổi sáng
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
tôi yêu bạn
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Northern Vietnamese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
North-central Vietnamese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Mid-Central Vietnamese
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million91.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million75.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Vietnamese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Vietnamese sign languages
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating