Countries
Japan
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Japan
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
-
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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.
Similar To
Korean Language
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9974
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
514
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1460
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Kana
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
59
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
zoo tav su
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
thov
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Laos
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hakata
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
China
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
kansai
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million4.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million3.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
Hmong
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Mong
French Name
japonais
hmong
German Name
Japanisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Hmong people
Origin
1185
19
Language Family
Japonic Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Hmong
Language Position
824
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ja
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
hmn
ISO 639 3
jpn
hmv
ISO 639 6
jpn
hmn
Glottocode
nucl1643
firs1234
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
-