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
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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
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
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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
Where They Speak
China
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
Hmong
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Mong
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French Name
hmong
chinois
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Hmong people
Han
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Chinese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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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/T
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zho
ISO 639 2/B
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chi
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
firs1234
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Hmong and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Chinese language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Chinese Difficulty
The Hmong vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.