Download or read book Intensive and Expressive Language in White Hmong Hmoob Dawb written by Eric William Pederson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ideophones written by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.
Download or read book Meaningful Tone written by Martha Susan Ratliff and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following U.S. military involvement in Indo-China in 1975, many of the Hmong--an ethnic group originating in Southwestern China and Southeast Asia who were persecuted by the communist organization Pathet Lao--became refugees. A large portion of them originally resettled in the Upper-Midwestern United States, but the largest population of Hmong is now in Minnesota and California. Today, there are diasporic communities in countries around the world, with over 200,000 in the United States alone. The commitment of these communities to their language and culture, their accessibility, and outside interest has combined to create an explosion of scholarship and Hmong language literature. The interest in and utility of the Hmong language are perpetually renewed by growing Hmong enrollment in schools and the number and strength of Hmong community groups. The migration and growth of Hmong and other Southeast Asian groups worldwide make this landmark language study crucial for ongoing research. In this pioneering and innovative morpho-phonological study, Ratliff, building on the 1965 and 1967 works of E. J. A. Henderson, describes the morphological functions of tone in Southeast Asian languages. While focusing specifically on the White Hmong language, one of the languages of the larger Hmong-Mien language family, the book investigates underlying ideas about the function of tone as an organizational tool in what Ratliff calls “small word” languages. She focuses on tone and its role in compounds, form classes, and expressives.
Download or read book White Hmong English Dictionary written by Ernest E. Heimbach and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses, and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Cambodian Hmong Lao and Vietnamese Americans written by Joel Martin Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master s Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Hmong Language Two way Wordlist English to White Hmong written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Hmong Language Two way Wordlist White Hmong to English written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master Communications Hmong Picture Dictionary English White Hmong written by Mao Amy Yang-Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English White Hmong White Hmong English Dictionary written by Alejandra Bosch and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laos and Ethnic Minority Cultures written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is thought that Laos is home to no fewer than forty-seven ethnic groups. The Lao, who live in the plains, form half the country's population thereby constituting the country's predominant culture. Laos is also home, however, to many mountain minorities that live with their own languages, beliefs and aesthetic traditions. A large number of these local cultures, some of them of great antiquity, have managed to survive in spite of the ups and downs of regional history. None the less, this exceptional cultural diversity, which forms part of the rich national heritage of Laos, is currently under threat--in particular the intangible heritage of the oral, gestural, musical and ritual kind that relies entirely on memory.
Download or read book An Iu Mienh English Dictionary written by Herbert C. Purnell and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Mong Njua written by Thomas Amis Lyman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1974 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sovereignty and Rebellion written by Nicholas Tapp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Hmong are an ethnic minority in northern Thailand, Laos, southern China and Burma.
Download or read book Loanwords in the World s Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
