Countries
Vietnam
  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Portugal
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
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.
  
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Olá
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
obrigado
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Como você está?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
boa noite
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
boa Noite
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
boa Tarde
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
bom Dia
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
pesaroso
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
tchau
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Eu te amo
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
desculpe me
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Brazil
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
European Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Portugal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Daman and Diu
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
231.00 million
  
7
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
216.00 million
  
5
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Português
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Português
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
portugais
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Portugiesisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
3rd Century
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Medieval Galician
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Portuguese
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Portuguese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
pt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
por
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
por
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
por
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
port1283
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
51-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available