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Pa Then people

Патхен · Q1022264

language area per Glottologcensus counts
8,248
Vietnam, census 2019 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Hmong-Mien
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Vietnam: 8,248 people in the 2019 census.

Main language: Pa-Hng. Glottolog classifies it in the Hmong-Mien family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Vietnam2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Pa Then» · [1]
8,248

Languages and their lineage

Pa-Hng

  1. Hmong-Mienhmon1336
  2. Hmongichmon1337
  3. Paheng-Younuopahe1239
  4. Pahengpahe1240
  5. Pa-Hngpahn1237

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

MiaoYao peopleShe people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Viet Nam, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)