Countries
India
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
India
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
- 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
Bengali Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
15
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating