Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Nepal
  
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
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
zoo hmo
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
thov
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Laos
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
China
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Hmong
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
hmong
  
népalais
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
19
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
hmv
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
firs1234
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Hmong and Nepali Speaking population
Hmong and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Hmong and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Hmong and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Hmong vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Hmong and Nepali Language Codes
Hmong and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Hmong and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.