Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
-
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
7429
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
149
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
94
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
hallo
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
takk
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
zoo hmo
god natt
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
god kveld
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
god morgen
Please
thov
Vær så snill
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
unnskyld
Bye
Nyob zoo
ha det
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Laos
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
310,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Sognamål
Where They Speak
China
Sogn
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
619
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.70 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Hmong
Norsk
Alternative Names
Mong
Norsk
French Name
hmong
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Hmong people
Norwegians
Origin
19
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Hmong
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2418
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
nor
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
nor
ISO 639 3
hmv
nor
ISO 639 6
hmn
nor
Glottocode
firs1234
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional