Countries
Vietnam
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
sorry
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic