Re: VMs: Anyone have some Hmong text?

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:

> Not what I'm looking for. I want a book-sized piece of Hmong text, with no (or 
> very few) bits of untransliterated foreign text stuck in. I looked in the 
> Gutenberg Project, but it has no Hmong texts.

There is a bunch of info about Hmong at "www.hmongcenter,org".

One thing I discovered there that I didn't realize is that Hmong is 
apparently a tone language with 7 or 8 tones, and that, unlike 
Vietnamese, which uses diacritics to indicate the tones, Hmong uses the 
last letter of the word. So, "pog", "pod", etc. are apparently the same 
phonemes (i.e. "po") in different tones.

If you didn't know that, it would sure make your letter frequencies look 
odd!

Bruce

P.S. It's hard to believe there isn't a Hmong Bible kicking around 
online somewhere - perhaps some other religious book, such as the Koran 
or the writings of Mary Baker Eddy might be something to try.



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