Hmong (RPA: Hmoob) or Mong (RPA: Moob) is the common name for a dialect continuum o the Wast Hmongic branch o the Hmong-Mien/Miao-Yao leid faimily spoken bi the Hmong fowk o Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, northren Vietnam, Thailand, an Laos.[2] The tot nummer o speakers warldwide haes been estimatit tae be mair nor 4 million, includin ower 200,000 Hmong Americans.[3] Some dialects are mutually intelligible while ithers are sae distinct as tae be considered separate leids.

Hmong
lus Hmoob / lug Moob / lol Hmongb
Native taeCheenae, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand,
USA, an French Guiana.
Native speakers
(2.6 million citit 1995–2004)[1]
Hmong–Mien
Pahawh Hmong, Latin
Leid codes
ISO 639-3bluinclusive code
Individual codes:
hmv – Hmong Do (Vietnam)
mww – Hmong Daw (Laos, Cheenae)
hnj – Mong Njua (Laos, Cheenae)
hmz – Hmong Shua (Sinicized)
cqd – Chuanqiandian-cluster Miao
(cover term for Hmong in Cheenae)
hrm – Horned Miao (A-Hmo, Cheenae)
hmf – Hmong Don (Vietnam)

References

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  1. Hmong at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
    Hmong Do (Vietnam) at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
    Hmong Daw (Laos, Cheenae) at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
    Mong Njua (Laos, Cheenae) at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
  2. Ratliff, Martha (1992). Meaningful Tone: A Study of Tonal Morphology in Compounds, Form Classes, and Expressive Phrases in White Hmong. Dekalb, Illinois: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University.
  3. Lemoine, Jacques (2005). "What is the actual number of the (H)mong in the Warld" (PDF). Hmong Studies Journal. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 23 November 2010.