Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (Hmong: ; 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. The church, which moved around California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado, and many other states, has used the script in printed material and videos. It is reported to have some use in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, France, and Australia.
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. It contains 36 consonant characters, 9 vowel characters, and 7 combining tone characters. 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.
Terminology The term Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob means ‘Genesis Complete Hmong script’; ntawv means ‘letter’, nyiajkeeb means ‘genesis’, puajtxwm means ‘complete’, and hmoob is ‘Hmong’. 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.
Consonants MA TSA NTA TA HA NA XA NKA CA LA SA ZA NCA NTSA KA DA NYA NRA VA NTXA TXA FA RA QA YA NQA PA XYA NPA DLA NPLA HAH MLA PLA GA RRA
Vowels A AA I U O OO E EE W
Tone markers high-level low-glottalized high-falling mid-rising mid-level low-level falling-breathy low-rising b m j v Ø s g d
Noun indicators person thing place vertebrate invertebrate OOV PES KHABTHEEB KHUAMLUAS POOS
Digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Punctuation marks repeat syllable lengthener XW XW SEEV
Logograms Currency Ownership
Unicode
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+1E100–U+1E14F:
Fonts Nyiakeng-Puachue-Hmong-Fonts Download Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong fonts
References
External links Atlas of Endangered Alphabets - Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Keyboard Google Fonts Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong