Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Nepal
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
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China
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
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
Glottocode
firs1234
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Hmong and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Hmong and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Hmong and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Hmong are spoken in different Hmong Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Hmong vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Hmong dialects include: Hmong Njua, Hmong Daw. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Hmong and Tibetan Speaking population
Hmong and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hmong and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Hmong and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Hmong and Tibetan on Hmong vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hmong and Tibetan Language Codes
Hmong and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hmong and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.