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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Chinese Language
Not Available
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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Hong Kong
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 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
75.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Vietnamesisch
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Cantonese
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available