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Road to Literacy
Hmong Literacy History
Hmong Pahawh
- Created by an illiterate Hmong farmer,
Soob Lwj Yaj (Shong Lue Yang)
- Words of God to rewrite & teach
original Hmong language
Hmong For Hmong
Missionary for Hmong
Goal of Missionary: Spread Word of God
1900s - Samuel Pollard in
Sichuan Province, China
1920s - Savina Romanized Alphabet
- Sent by the Society of Foreign
Mission in Paris
- Written in Vietnamese Characters
1952 - Romanized Phonetics (Popular)
Alphabet (RPA)
References
Xiong, L. (2012). Hmong for Hmong only – Hmong I: A
supplementary reading readiness course packet
for beginning college Hmong students. Retrieved from: http://csuchico-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.4/489
- Hmong Clothing
- Dry Cattle Skin
- Scroll Fell in Water
What happened to the Hmong Written system?
Hmong in China
Myths on "Why Hmong practice an oral traditions?"
Facts on Founders
Yves Bertrais
- Hmong Name: Txiv Plig Nyiaj Pov
- Able to write and speak in Hmong
William Smalley
- Linguistic from America
Lindwood Barney
- American Anthropologist
- Christian missionary
3 Hmong Assistants
- Names not on record
RPA
Hmong's Written Language
- Created in Loung Phabrang (Mostly
consists of White Hmong speakers)
- Typewriter and printer enable mass
distribution
- First Hmong Newspaper
How did RPA become so popular?
- Only way of communication during/post
Vietnam War
- Family separation in different countries
- Mass production of Hmong documentation
- Cultural value shifts in literacy