Countries
Ukraine
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
- 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
будь ласк
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
91.00 million
  
16
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
1561
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating