Countries
Vietnam
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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.
  
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
Biko
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
Ndo
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Ibo
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
igbo
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Vietnamese and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Igbo language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Igbo Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.