Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
- 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
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
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
Olá
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
Por Favor
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
tchau
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Português
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
portugais
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating