Countries
Vietnam
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
آسف
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
arabe
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic