Countries
Indonesia
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
Not Available
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
javanais
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
450 AD
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
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
Javanese
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
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
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Javanese and Vietnamese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Javanese and Vietnamese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Vietnamese language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Vietnamese word for "Thank You" is Cam on. Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Vietnamese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Vietnamese Difficulty
The Javanese vs Vietnamese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese Alphabets and Vietnamese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Javanese and Vietnamese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Vietnamese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Vietnamese time required is 44 weeks.