Book Description
A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.
Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books (R)
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1541538366
A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.
Author : Patrick Txhim Vang
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Hmong language
ISBN :
Author : Jay Xiong
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Hmong language
ISBN :
Author : Ellen Kester
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Language disorders
ISBN : 9780692254585
Accurately differentiate between errors that are related to second-language influence or are due to a communication disorder. Is your student having difficulty because they have an impairment or because they are learning a second language? Improve instructional targets for culturally and linguistically diverse students in the general education classroom as well as make gains and improve referrals for special education. The framework used in this book makes it easy for any education professional to distinguish between language differences and language disorders regardless of your own language background.
Author : Blong Kong
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Hmong (Asian people)
ISBN : 9781535176125
This guide to Hmong language collects the most common Hmong phrases and expressions as well as an English-Hmong/Hmong-English dictionary. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, sightseeing and many other categories of expressions that will help anyone wanting to learn Hmong. This phrasebook is a must for anyone wanting to learn Hmong.
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110558149
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Author : Khou Vang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2023-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781644100417
Author : Martha Susan Ratliff
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Hmong language
ISBN : 9780858836150
Author : William A. Smalley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1990-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226762876
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." An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writing provides 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 moveable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern wordprocessing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his coauthors' story.
Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566892627
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang’s family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice. Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.