Countries
Vietnam
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic