Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
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
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
Good Night
晚安
  
zoo hmo
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
zoo tav su
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
Please
请
  
thov
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
Bye
再见
  
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I Love You
我爱你
  
Kuv hlub koj
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
zam txim rau kuv
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Hmong Njua
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Laos
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Hmong Daw
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
21
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Hmong Do
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
4.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
3.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Hmong
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Mong
  
French Name
Not Available
  
hmong
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Miao-Sprachen
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
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Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hmong people
  
Origin
17th century
  
19
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
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Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Hmong
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
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ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
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ISO 639 3
No data available
  
hmv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
cant1236
  
firs1234
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
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Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Cantonese and Hmong Speaking population
Cantonese and Hmong speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Hmong languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Hmong Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 %. 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 Cantonese and Hmong on Cantonese vs Hmong where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Hmong Language Codes
Cantonese and Hmong language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Hmong Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.