Langenesis

Hmong-Mien family

Hmong

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Hmong (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Hmong-Mien language. Lineage: Proto-Hmong-Mien → Hmong.

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Speakers
4M (4,000,000)
ISO 639-3
hmn

Western Hmongic dialect cluster (Hmong Daw, Hmong Njua, etc.) of southern China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, with a large diaspora in the US.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Hmong-Mienc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
  2. Hmongc. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Hmong-Mien.

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