Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Austria
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
- 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
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
molim
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
hrvatski
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
croate
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
9th century
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating