Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
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Chinese Language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.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
  
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
zoo hmo
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
  
早上好
  
Please
thov
  
请
  
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
  
遗憾
  
Bye
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再见
  
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Laos
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
3.70 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Hmong
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Mong
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
hmong
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Hmong people
  
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Origin
19
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Hmong
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
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ISO 639 2/B
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ISO 639 3
hmv
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
firs1234
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Hmong and Cantonese 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 Hmong and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Cantonese language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Hmong vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Hmong and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.