Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong ( Hmong: ; RPA: ''Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob'') is an

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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

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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

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. The script bears strong resemblance to

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in structure and form and characters inspired from the

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, 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

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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

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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 Hmong

Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Keyboard

Google Fonts Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
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