Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
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National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
7435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
145
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
92
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
zoo hmo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
thov
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Nyob zoo
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Laos
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
310,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
3.70 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Hmong
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Mong
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
hmong
tibétain
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Hmong people
tibetan people
Origin
19
c. 650
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
bod
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
tib
ISO 639 3
hmv
bod
ISO 639 6
hmn
bod
Glottocode
firs1234
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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