Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
National Language
China, Taiwan
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
zoo tav su
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
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I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Laos
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
China
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Hmong
Alternative Names
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Mong
French Name
chinois
hmong
German Name
Chinesisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Han
Hmong people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Hmong
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
zh
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ISO 639 2/T
zho
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ISO 639 2/B
chi
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
firs1234
Linguasphere
79-AAA
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Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Hmong Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Hmong greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Hmong language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Hmong word for "Thank You" is Ua tsaug (Oua jow). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Hmong Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Hmong Difficulty
The Chinese vs Hmong difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Hmong Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Hmong are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Hmong, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Hmong time required is 44 weeks.