Countries
Vietnam
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Vietnamese and German Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Vietnamese and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and German language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs German Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese Alphabets and German Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Vietnamese and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.