Austroasiatic · ISO 639-3 mtq
Muong Language Thiểng Mường
Muong is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Muong is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Muong
Language family
- Austroasiatic
- Vietic
- Viet-Muong
- Muongic
- Muong
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Muong language
Muong (Thiểng Mường) is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 438th most spoken language in the world — just behind Standard Estonian (1.2 million) and ahead of Aja (Benin) (1.1 million). It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Muongic group within the Viet-Muong branch.
Where is Muong spoken?
Muong is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Vietnam (1.1 million).
Muong is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Muong is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Vietnamese.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mtq.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.