The Hmong language mostly spoken today are Hmong Daw which is White Miao. This dialect is most popular in today Hmong society as 60% of most people and younger generation spoke this dialect. Another dialect is Hmong Njua which is Green Miao. This language is more of the older generation and about 40% of the Hmong speak this language. Hmong Daw(Duh) and Hmong Njua(Draw) came from the Miao language also known as the hmongic which was widen spoken by some ethnic group in Southern China and Southeast Asia. Hmong language is closely related to Mein and some other related language to the Hmong language are Hmu, Qo Xiong, Bunu, Pa-heng, She, Mun, and Biao Min. The Hmong language is a minority in China and about 2 people spoke this language.
Personally being Hmong myself, I spoke these two dialects in my every day life. My father side spoke Hmong Njua(green) and my mother side spoke Hmong Daw(white), so I was able to speak two dialects. From personal experience, Hmong Daw and Hmong Njua sometimes conflicts against each others as one word spoken in Hmong Daw can be say and interpret differently in Hmong Njua. This always cause me confusion between the two dialects. For example if my mom were to say the stainless steel kettle which is lus Qws(Lu-Qu), I wouldn't understand as I known the kettle as
lus Hwj Kais(Lu-Fuu-Kai).
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