Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
haluta
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
finnois
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
1543
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating