1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Cam on
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
xin vui lòng
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Xin lỗi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Xin loi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
91.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
75.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Vietnamesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional