Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
France
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
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Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
français
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
français
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
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