Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
7454
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1418
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
92
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
zoo hmo
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
thov
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Nyob zoo
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Vedda
Where They Speak
Laos
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
310,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Vietnam
-
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.70 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Hmong
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Mong
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
hmong
singhalais
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Hmong people
Sinhalese people
Origin
19
3
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Hmong
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
sin
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
sin
ISO 639 3
hmv
sin
ISO 639 6
hmn
sin
Glottocode
firs1234
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional