Countries
Vietnam
  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Spain
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
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 world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
hola
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
Gracias
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Cómo estás?
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Buenas Noches
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
Bonne soirée
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
Buenas Tardes
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
Buenos Días
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
triste
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
adiós
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
Te Quiero
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
Discúlpeme
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Mexican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Mexico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
105,000,000.00
  
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Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Cuban Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Cuba
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Puerto Rico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
489.00 million
  
3
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
410.00 million
  
2
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
89.50 million
  
9
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Español
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
espagnol; castillan
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Spanisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
210 BC
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
es
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
spa
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
spa
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
spa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
stan1288
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
51-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic