Hmong Daw

WALS coordinates: 26° N, 105° E

spoken in China, Vietnam

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Miao
Routledge:
  • Miao
Other:
  • Hmong Dao,
  • Hmong (White)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Numeral Classifiers Obligatory
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed
Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative No second-person imperatives
Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
Other
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings