Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Germany
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
bitte
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Deutsch
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
allemand
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating