Countries
Vietnam
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
47,000,000.00
  
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
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Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
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How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
65.00 million
  
17
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
persan
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Persian people
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic