Hmong-Mien · ISO 639-3 hea
Northern Qiandong Miao Language Hmub
Northern Qiandong Miao is a Hmong-Mien language spoken by about 1.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Northern Qiandong Miao is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Northern Qiandong Miao
Language family
- Hmong-Mien
- Hmongic
- Nuclear Hmongic-Ho Ne
- Nuclear Hmongic
- East Hmongic
- Northeastern Qiandongic Miao
- Northern Qiandong Miao
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Northern Qiandong Miao language
Northern Qiandong Miao (Hmub) is spoken by about 1.2 million people, which makes it the 421st most spoken language in the world — just behind Gurani (1.2 million) and ahead of Morisyen (1.2 million). It belongs to the Hmong-Mien language family and, more precisely, to the Northeastern Qiandongic Miao group within the Nuclear Hmongic-Ho Ne branch.
Where is Northern Qiandong Miao spoken?
Northern Qiandong Miao is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.2 million).
Northern Qiandong Miao is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Qiandong Miao 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 Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao, Hmong Daw and Hmong.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hea.
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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.