Kim Mun | |
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Native to | China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand |
Native speakers | (ca. 400,000 cited 1995–1999)[1] |
Hmong–Mien
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Official status | |
Official language in | China (Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mji |
Glottolog | kimm1245 |
Kim Mun (Chinese: 金門方言; also Lanten or Landian 蓝靛) is a Mienic language spoken by 200,000 of the Yao people in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Hunan and Yunnan, with about 61,000 of the speakers in Hainan Province.[1] There are also speakers in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
Iu Mien and Kim Mun are similar to each other, having a lexical similarity percentage of 78%.