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Countries

Countries

China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam

Total No. Of Countries

5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Not Available

Interesting Facts

  • Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
  • Hmong language came from western part of China.

Similar To

Not Available

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

74
Rank: 38 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

14
Rank: 11 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

60
Rank: 36 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

9
Rank: 7 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)

Thank You

Ua tsaug (Oua jow)

How Are You?

Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)

Good Night

zoo hmo

Good Evening

zoo yav tsaus ntuj

Good Afternoon

zoo tav su

Good Morning

zoo thaum sawv ntxov

Please

thov

Sorry

Thov txim (Thaw zhee)

Bye

-9999

I Love You

Kuv hlub koj

Excuse Me

zam txim rau kuv

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hmong Njua

Where They Speak

Laos

How Many People Speak

310,000.00
Rank: 37 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hmong Daw

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.00
Rank: 21 (Overall)
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Hmong Do

Where They Speak

Vietnam

How Many People Speak

Not Available
1400 96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

4.00 million
Rank: 75 (Overall)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

3.70 million
Rank: 72 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

Hmong

Alternative Names

Mong

French Name

hmong

German Name

Miao-Sprachen

Pronunciation

Not Available

Ethnicity

Hmong people

History

Origin

19

Language Family

Hmong–Mien Family

Subgroup

Not Available

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Hmong

Language Position

Not Available
1 120
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Signed Forms

Not Available

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

Not Available

ISO 639 2/B

Not Available

ISO 639 3

hmv

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

firs1234

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Hmong

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hmong Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hmong Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hmong. Hmong phonology gives Hmong vowels and Hmong consonants. There are 14 vowels and 60 consonants in Hmong language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hmong is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hmong language is given in detail in this section.

All Hmong countries

Want to explore all Hmong countries? About Hmong language serves you with all Hmong Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hmong as official language are called as Hmong countries.

  • Countries that use Hmong as their National Language are: China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Hmong as second language are: Hmong is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Hmong greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hmong Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hmong language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hmong language.Learn Hmong greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  • Thank you: Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  • Good Morning: zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  • Good Evening: zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  • Good Afternoon: zoo tav su

All Hmong Language Codes

Get to know all Hmong language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hmong Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.