Countries
Vietnam
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Russki
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
russe
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic