Countries
India, Nepal
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
- 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
Hindi
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
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Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
कृपया
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
népalais
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
19 BC
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
12
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating