Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
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
Not Available
  
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
Not Available
  
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
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
China
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Hmong
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Not Available
  
French Name
hmong
  
chinois
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
Han
  
Origin
19
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
hmv
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
firs1234
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Hmong and Chinese Speaking population
Hmong and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hmong and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Hmong and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Hmong vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hmong and Chinese Language Codes
Hmong and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hmong and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.