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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
5 10

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
-

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
Thai and Lao Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
74 38

Phonology

How Many Vowels
14 11

How Many Consonants
60 36

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
9 7

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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
Nyob zoo

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 71

Dialect 2
Hmong Daw

Where They Speak
China

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00 58

Dialect 3
Hmong Do

Where They Speak
Vietnam

How Many People Speak
31,000,000.00 19

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
4.00 million 75

Speaking Population
0.13 % 54

Native Speakers
3.70 million 72

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million 52

Native Name
Hmong

Alternative Names
Mong

French Name
hmong

German Name
Miao-Sprachen

Pronunciation
[môŋ]

Ethnicity
Hmong people

History

Origin
19

Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Hmong

Language Position
24 22

Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
hmn

ISO 639 2/B
hmn

ISO 639 3
hmv

ISO 639 6
hmn

Glottocode
firs1234

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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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.

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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.

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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.

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