Kim Mun language

Kim Mun
Native toChina, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand
Native speakers
(ca. 400,000 cited 1995–1999)[1]
Hmong–Mien
Official status
Official language in
 China (Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County)
Language codes
ISO 639-3mji
Glottologkimm1245

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%.

  1. ^ a b Kim Mun at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon