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Tibetan and Hmong


Hmong and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Hmong-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
74   
38

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
14   
11

How Many Consonants
30   
20
60   
36

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
9   
7

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
zoo hmo   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
zoo yav tsaus ntuj   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
zoo tav su   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
zoo thaum sawv ntxov   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
thov   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Not Available   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Kuv hlub koj   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
zam txim rau kuv   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Hmong Njua   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Laos   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
310,000.00   
37

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Hmong Daw   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
China   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
1,600,000.00   
21

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Hmong Do   

Where They Speak
China   
Vietnam   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
4.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.13 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
3.70 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Hmong   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Mong   

French Name
tibétain   
hmong   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Miao-Sprachen   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Hmong people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
19   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Hmong–Mien Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Hmong   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
Not Available   

ISO 639 3
bod   
hmv   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
firs1234   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Hmong Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Hmong dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Hmong language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Hmong Dialects are spoken in different Hmong speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Hmong Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Hmong dialects include: Hmong Njua , Hmong Daw. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Hmong Speaking population

Tibetan and Hmong speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Hmong languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Hmong Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Hmong language is 0.13 %. 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 Tibetan and Hmong on Tibetan vs Hmong where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Hmong Language Codes

Tibetan and Hmong language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Hmong Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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