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The Origin and Development of A Hmong Messianic Script


In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people’s long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as “Mother (Source) of Writing”. This work provides a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use. In addition, it gives an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lue’s life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lue’s death, first by handwriting, then by primitive movable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern word processing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his coauthors’ story.

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ISBN: 9780226762876
AUTHOR Smalley, William A., Chia Koua Vang & Gnia Yee Yang
RELEASED 2006-03-18
PRINT Chicago 1990,
WL CODE I5731
SIZE 232 pp., 150 x 228 mm
BOOK WEIGHT 0.385 Kg
PACKING WEIGHT 0.200 Kg

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