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Hmong and Tibetan


Tibetan and Hmong


Countries

Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

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
-  
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

Alphabets in
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
74  
38
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
14  
11
5  
2

How Many Consonants
60  
36
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
9  
7
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Hmong Njua  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Laos  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
310,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Hmong Daw  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Hmong Do  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Vietnam  
China  

How Many People Speak
31,000,000.00  
19
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
4.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
4.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
24  
22
29  
27

Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

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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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.

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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.

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