Countries
Vietnam
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Suomi
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1543
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic