Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (
Hmong
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related to ...
: ;
RPA: ''Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob'') is an
alphabet
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script devised for
White Hmong and Green Hmong in the 1980s by Reverend Chervang Kong for use within his United Christians Liberty Evangelical Church.
The church, which moved around
California
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Minnesota
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Wisconsin
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North Carolina
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, and many other states, has used the script in printed material and videos.
It is reported to have some use in
Laos
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Thailand
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Vietnam
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France
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, and
Australia
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.
The script bears strong resemblance to
Thai script
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in structure and form and characters inspired from the
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet ( he, wikt:אלפבית, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew languag ...
, although the characters themselves are different.
It contains 36 consonant characters, 9 vowel characters, and 7 combining tone characters.
There are also 5 characters for
determinative
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s used to indicate that the preceding noun is the name of a person, place, thing, vertebrate or invertebrate animal, or a pet name for the animal. Determinatives are not pronounced, but help distinguish homophones. They appear as the last character in a word, and are not separated by a space.
Terminology
The term ''Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob'' means ‘Genesis Complete Hmong script’; ''ntawv'' means ‘letter’, ''nyiajkeeb'' means ‘genesis’, ''puajtxwm'' means ‘complete’, and ''hmoob'' is ‘Hmong’.
The script is also called Hmong Kong Hmong, Pa Dao Hmong (also the name of a different Hmong script), and 'the Chervang script', after its inventor.
Consonants
Vowels
Tone markers
Noun indicators
Digits
Other symbols
Logograms
Unicode
Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong script was added to the
Unicode
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Standard on March 5, 2019 with the release of version 12.0.
The Unicode block for Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong is U+1E100–U+1E14F:
Fonts
Nyiakeng-Puachue-Hmong-FontsDownload Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong fonts
References
External links
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets - Nyiakeng Puachue HmongNyiakeng Puachue Hmong KeyboardGoogle Fonts Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
Alphabets
Hmongic languages
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