Countries
Vietnam
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Not Available
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
1561
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European 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, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic