Countries
Myanmar
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
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Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
- 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 Language
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3374
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1214
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3360
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
39
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
zoo tav su
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
thov
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Laos
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
Myanmar
China
How Many People Speak
440,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
Burma
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
90,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million3.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Hmong
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Mong
French Name
birman
hmong
German Name
Birmanisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Hmong people
Origin
1113 AD
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Hmong
Language Position
4324
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
my
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
bur
hmn
ISO 639 3
mya
hmv
ISO 639 6
mya
hmn
Glottocode
sout3159
firs1234
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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