1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Vietnam
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.6 Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Republic of Brazil
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Czech Republic
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.9 Regulated By
Not Available
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.10 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.11 Similar To
Chinese Language
Not Available
1.12 Derived From
Chinese Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.9.2 How Many Consonants
2.10 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.11 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.12 Hard to Learn
2.12.1 Language Levels
6.2.3 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
7.2 Thank You
7.3 How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
7.4 Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
7.5 Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
7.6 Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
7.7 Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
早安 (Zǎo ān)
7.8 Please
7.9 Sorry
7.10 Bye
7.11 I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
7.12 Excuse Me
8 Dialects
8.1 Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Mandarin
8.1.1 Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
8.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
8.3 Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Wu
8.3.1 Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
China, United States of America
8.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
8.5 Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Yue
8.5.1 Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
8.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
9.3 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
91.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
11.3 Speaking Population
12.4 Native Speakers
75.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
12.5.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
13.7.5 Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
中文 (zhōngwén)
13.7.6 Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Not Available
13.7.7 French Name
13.7.8 German Name
13.8 Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
13.9 Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Han
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
14.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
No early forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Chinese
14.3.3 Language Position
15.3.4 Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
15.4 Scope
16 Code
16.1 ISO 639 1
16.2 ISO 639 2
16.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
16.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
16.3 ISO 639 3
16.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
16.5 Glottocode
16.6 Linguasphere
16.7 Types of Language
16.7.1 Language Type
16.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
16.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating