Countries
Vietnam
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Not Available
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
mongol
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available