1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
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Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
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再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Laos
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
310,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
4.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.70 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating