1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Vietnam
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
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1.10 Derived From
Chinese Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.2 Phonology
4.2.1 How Many Vowels
4.3.3 How Many Consonants
4.5 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
4.6 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
4.7 Hard to Learn
4.7.1 Language Levels
4.8.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
6.4 Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
6.5 Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
6.6 Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
6.7 Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
早安 (Zǎo ān)
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Mandarin
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Wu
7.3.1 Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
China, United States of America
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Yue
7.5.1 Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
91.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
10.8 Native Speakers
75.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
10.8.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
10.8.2 Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
中文 (zhōngwén)
10.8.3 Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Not Available
10.8.4 French Name
10.8.5 German Name
10.9 Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
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10.10 Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Han
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
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11.2.2 Branch
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11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Chinese
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating