Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
| Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong ππ©π°πππ±ππ€π³π¬ππ€π³ | |
|---|---|
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| Script type | Alphabet
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| Creator | Chervang Kong |
| Created | 1980s |
| Languages | White Hmong, Green Hmong |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Hmnp (451), Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
| U+1E100βU+1E14F | |
Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (Hmong: ππ¦π²π€ππ«π°ππ§π²π€ππ¬π±; RPA: Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob) is an alphabet script devised for White Hmong and Green Hmong in the 1980s by Reverend Chervang Kong for use within his United Christians Liberty Evangelical Church.[1] The church, which moved around California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado, and many other states, has used the script in printed material and videos.[2][1] It is reported to have some use in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, France, and Australia.[1]
The script bears strong resemblance to Thai script in structure and form and characters inspired from the Hebrew alphabet, although the characters themselves are different.[1] It contains 36 consonant characters, 9 vowel characters, and 7 combining tone characters.[1] There are also 5 characters for determinatives 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.[3]
Terminology
[edit | edit source]The term Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob means βGenesis Complete Hmong scriptβ; ntawv means βletterβ, nyiajkeeb means βgenesisβ, puajtxwm means βcompleteβ, and hmoob is βHmongβ.[1] 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.[1]
Consonants
[edit | edit source]| π | π | π | π |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | TSA | NTA | TA |
| π | π | π | π |
| HA | NA | XA | NKA |
| π | π | π | π |
| CA | LA | SA | ZA |
| π | π | π | π |
| NCA | NTSA | KA | DA |
| π | π | π | π |
| NYA | NRA | VA | NTXA |
| π | π | π | π |
| TXA | FA | RA | QA |
| π | π | π | π |
| YA | NQA | PA | XYA |
| π | π | π | π |
| NPA | DLA | NPLA | HAH |
| π | π‘ | π’ | π£ |
| MLA | PLA | GA | RRA |
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| π€ | π₯ | π¦ | π§ | π¨ | π© | πͺ | π« | π¬ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | AA | I | U | O | OO | E | EE | W |
Tone markers
[edit | edit source]| π° | π± | π² | π³ | π΄ | π΅ | πΆ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high-level | low-glottalized | high-falling | mid-rising | mid-level | low-level | falling-breathy | low-rising |
| b | m | j | v | Γ | s | g | d |
Noun indicators
[edit | edit source]| π· | πΈ | πΉ | πΊ | π» |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| person | thing | place | vertebrate | invertebrate |
| OOV | PES | KHABTHEEB | KHUAMLUAS | POOS |
Digits
[edit | edit source]| π | π | π | π | π | π | π | π | π β | π |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Punctuation marks
[edit | edit source]| πΌ | π½ |
|---|---|
| repeat | syllable lengthener |
| XW XW | SEEV |
Logograms
[edit | edit source]| π | π |
|---|---|
| Currency | Ownership |
Unicode
[edit | edit source]Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong script was added to the Unicode Standard on March 5, 2019 with the release of version 12.0.
The Unicode block for Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong is U+1E100βU+1E14F:
| Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1E10x | 𞄀 | 𞄁 | 𞄂 | 𞄃 | 𞄄 | 𞄅 | 𞄆 | 𞄇 | 𞄈 | 𞄉 | 𞄊 | 𞄋 | 𞄌 | 𞄍 | 𞄎 | 𞄏 |
| U+1E11x | 𞄐 | 𞄑 | 𞄒 | 𞄓 | 𞄔 | 𞄕 | 𞄖 | 𞄗 | 𞄘 | 𞄙 | 𞄚 | 𞄛 | 𞄜 | 𞄝 | 𞄞 | 𞄟 |
| U+1E12x | 𞄠 | 𞄡 | 𞄢 | 𞄣 | 𞄤 | 𞄥 | 𞄦 | 𞄧 | 𞄨 | 𞄩 | 𞄪 | 𞄫 | 𞄬 | |||
| U+1E13x | 𞄰 | 𞄱 | 𞄲 | 𞄳 | 𞄴 | 𞄵 | 𞄶 | 𞄷 | 𞄸 | 𞄹 | 𞄺 | 𞄻 | 𞄼 | 𞄽 | ||
| U+1E14x | 𞅀 | 𞅁 | 𞅂 | 𞅃 | 𞅄 | 𞅅 | 𞅆 | 𞅇 | 𞅈 | 𞅉 | 𞅎 | 𞅏 | ||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Fonts
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Atlas of Endangered Alphabets - Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
- Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Keyboard
- Google Fonts Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
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