Kim Mun language

Kim Mun (Chinese: 金门方言; 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. There are also speakers in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.

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

Iu Mien and Kim Mun are similar to each other, having a lexical similarity percentage of 78%.

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