Countries
Countries
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Chinese Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Chinese Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
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Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
37
19
54
33
Phonology
How Many Vowels
12
9
18
15
How Many Consonants
21
11
36
26
Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
2
1
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
11
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
Xin chào
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Cam on
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
xin vui lòng
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Xin lỗi
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Tạm biệt
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
Sri Lanka
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Not Available
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Not Available
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Not Available
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
5
5
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
16
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
1.14 %
16
0.25 %
99+
Native Speakers
75.00 million
14
16.00 million
39
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
17
2.00 million
34
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
vietnamien
singhalais
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Not Available
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
c. 1440
3
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
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
14
13
70
99+
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
vi
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
vie
sin
ISO 639 2/B
vie
sin
ISO 639 3
vie
sin
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
viet1252
sinh1246
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional
