Hmong-Mien family
Iu Mien
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Iu Mien (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Hmong-Mien language. Lineage: Proto-Hmong-Mien → Iu Mien.
See Iu Mien on the interactive map- Speakers
- 800K (800,000)
- ISO 639-3
- ium
- Glottocode
- iumi1238
Largest Mienic language, spoken in southern China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, with diaspora communities in the US.
Lineage
- Proto-Hmong-Mienc. 500 BCE – 500 CE
- Iu Mienc. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Proto-Hmong-Mien.