Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Nepal
National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
zoo hmo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
thov
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
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ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Laos
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Hmong Daw
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hmong Do
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Vietnam
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
Hmong
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Mong
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
hmong
tibétain
German Name
Miao-Sprachen
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Hmong people
tibetan people
Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Hmong
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2/T
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bod
ISO 639 2/B
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tib
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
firs1234
tibe1272
Linguasphere
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Hmong and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hmong and Tibetan language. Hmong word for "Hello" is Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Hmong Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hmong vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Hmong vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hmong Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hmong and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hmong is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.