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
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
7448
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1412
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
zoo hmo
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
Good afternoon
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
thov
कृपया
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Nyob zoo
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Doteli
Where They Speak
Laos
Nepal
How Many People Speak
310,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
China
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Nepal
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Hmong
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Mong
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
hmong
népalais
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Nepali
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Hmong people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
19
19 BC
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Hmong
Nepali
Language Position
2459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
nep
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
nep
ISO 639 3
hmv
npi
ISO 639 6
hmn
nep
Glottocode
firs1234
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative