Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
7447
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
148
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6022
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
96
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
pranam
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
zoo hmo
Śubharātri
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Suprabhaat
Please
thov
kripaya
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
maf karai
Bye
Nyob zoo
Alavidā
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
kripaya
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Laos
Nepal
How Many People Speak
310,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Madhubani
Where They Speak
China
North India
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Khortha
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.70 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Hmong
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Mong
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
hmong
maithili
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Maithili
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Hmong people
Maithil
Origin
19
14th century
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2440
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
mai
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
mai
ISO 639 3
hmv
mai
ISO 639 6
hmn
mai
Glottocode
firs1234
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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