Countries
Vietnam
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Vietnamese and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Nepali language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Nepali Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.