Countries
Vietnam
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
bok
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
molim
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
croate
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic