Countries
Vietnam
  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Ethiopic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Selam
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
amesege'nallo'
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Dehina newot?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Dehna dur
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
melkam meshe't
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
i'ndemin adäru
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
i'bakwon
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
aznallehu
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
tschao
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
afekirishalehu
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
yiqirta
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Gondar
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Gondar
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Gojjami
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Ethiopia
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
18.70 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
amharique
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Amharisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Amharas
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Amharic
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional
  
Vietnamese and Amharic Speaking population
Vietnamese and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Vietnamese and Amharic on Vietnamese vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Vietnamese and Amharic Language Codes
Vietnamese and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Vietnamese and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.