Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
55
0
46
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National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Thai and Lao Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
7426
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1424
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6023
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
96
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
zoo hmo
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
thov
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Nyob zoo
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Laos
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
310,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Wu
Where They Speak
China
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Yue
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
31,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.70 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Hmong
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Mong
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
hmong
chinois
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[môŋ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Hmong people
Han
Origin
19
1250 BC
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Chinese
Language Position
241
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Hmong Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hmn
zho
ISO 639 2/B
hmn
chi
ISO 639 3
hmv
zho
ISO 639 6
hmn
zho
Glottocode
firs1234
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating