Countries
Vietnam
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available