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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

51
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon

Regulated By

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Myanmar Language Commission

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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Thai and Lao Languages
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

7433
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1412
0 32
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How Many Consonants

6033
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Tangut

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

93
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

zoo hmo
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

zoo yav tsaus ntuj
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

zoo tav su
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

zoo thaum sawv ntxov
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

thov
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

Nyob zoo
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

Kuv hlub koj
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

zam txim rau kuv
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Hmong Njua
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Laos
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

310,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hmong Daw
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

China
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

1,600,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hmong Do
Intha

Where They Speak

Vietnam
Burma

How Many People Speak

31,000,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

65
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

4.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

3.70 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

4.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Hmong
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Mong
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

hmong
birman

German Name

Miao-Sprachen
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[môŋ]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Hmong people
Bamar people

History

Origin

19
1113 AD

Language Family

Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

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Tibeto-Burman

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Hmong
Modern Burmese

Language Position

2443
1 120
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Signed Forms

Hmong Sign Language
Burmese sign language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hmn
mya

ISO 639 2/B

hmn
bur

ISO 639 3

hmv
mya

ISO 639 6

hmn
mya

Glottocode

firs1234
sout3159

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Hmong and Burmese Alphabets

Hmong and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Hmong and Burmese. In Hmong Alphabets there are 74 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Hmong and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Hmong and Burmese languages. The Hmong phonology consist Hmong vowels and Hmong consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Hmong greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Hmong and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Hmong and Burmese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Hmong and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Hmong and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Hmong are spoken in different Hmong Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Hmong vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Hmong dialects include: Hmong Njua, Hmong Daw. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Hmong and Burmese Speaking population

Hmong and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hmong and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Hmong and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Hmong and Burmese on Hmong vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Hmong and Burmese Language Codes

Hmong and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hmong and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.