Hmong-Mien

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Hmong-Mien is a small language family of East and Southeast Asia, comprising the Hmong and Mien (Yao) languages spoken mainly in southern China and among diaspora communities in countries such as Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and the United States.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Hmong-Mien languages 5
Hmong-Mien canonical 2
Hmongic languages 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family
language grouping
alternativeName Miao people
surface form: Miao–Yao

Miao languages
surface form: Miao–Yao language family
classificationStatus small language family
continent Asia
diasporaPresence significant diaspora communities in Southeast Asia
significant diaspora communities in the United States
estimatedSpeakers several million speakers
geneticAffiliation language isolate family (no widely accepted relatives)
hasFeature complex tone systems
limited inflectional morphology
rich vowel inventories
hasSubfamily Hmongic languages
surface form: Hmongic

Mienic
includesLanguage Biao Min
Bunu
Hmong
Hmong Daw
Hmong
surface form: Hmong Njua

Iu Mien
Jiongnai
Kim Mun
Mien
Pa-Hng
Qo Xiong
languageBranchOf Austro-Tai hypothesis
surface form: Austro-Tai (hypothesized)

Sino-Austronesian (hypothesized)
Sino-Tibetan–Hmong-Mien areal group
surface form: Sino-Tibetan–Hmong-Mien (hypothesized)
majorEthnicGroups Hmong
surface form: Hmong people

Mien people
Yao people
primaryRegion southern China
region East Asia
Southeast Asia
researchField comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
scriptUsed Chinese characters
Latin script
Pahawh Hmong
spokenInCountry Australia
Canada
China
France
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
United States of America
surface form: United States

Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
typology analytic language family
tonal language family

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hmong hasLanguageFamily Hmong-Mien
northwestern Vietnam languageUsed Hmong-Mien
subject surface form: Northwestern Vietnam
this entity surface form: Hmongic languages
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture languageUsed Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmongic languages
Miao languages subclassOf Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong-Mien languages
She people languageFamily Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong-Mien languages
Miao people languageFamily Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong-Mien languages
Yao minority languageFamily Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong-Mien languages
Hmong Lao script associatedWithLanguageFamily Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong-Mien languages
Hmong Daw languageFamily Hmong-Mien
Lakkia language hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong–Mien languages
Kra languages contactWith Hmong-Mien
this entity surface form: Hmong–Mien languages