Re: VMs: Anyone have some Hmong text?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 22:07, Bruce Grant wrote:
> 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!

I did know that. That's why I picked Hmong. I'm wondering if Voynichese 
letters like "q" that appear only in certain parts of a word are actually 
tone marks. "s" in Hmong is both a consonant and a tone mark, so words like 
"losis" (there actually is a "lossis") are ambiguous.

I guess I'll have to go to the nyob zoo and ask the zoo keeper. :)

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
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