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German and Vietnamese


Countries

Countries
Vietnam  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
7  
8

National Language
Vietnam  
Germany  

Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Chinese Language  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Chinese Language  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
37  
19
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
10  
7

How Many Consonants
21  
11
9  
1

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
Xin chào  
hallo  

Thank You
Cam on  
Danke  

How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
Chào buổi tối  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng  
guten Morgen  

Please
xin vui lòng  
bitte  

Sorry
Xin lỗi  
Verzeihung  

Bye
Tạm biệt  
Tschüs  

I Love You
tôi yêu bạn  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
Xin loi  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
91.00 million  
16
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
1.14 %  
16
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
75.00 million  
14
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million  
17
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
vietnamien  
allemand  

German Name
Vietnamesisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people  
Germans  

History

Origin
c. 1440  
6th Century AD  

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  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
14  
13
9  
9

Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
vi  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
vie  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
vie  
ger  

ISO 639 3
vie  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
viet1252  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
46-EBA  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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All Vietnamese and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Vietnamese and German dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Vietnamese and German Speaking population

Vietnamese and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and German languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Vietnamese and German on Vietnamese vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and German Language Codes

Vietnamese and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Vietnamese and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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