Countries
Vietnam
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
3
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional