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Mengfei Zhou Language Resource Assessment July 20, 2016 Institute for Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University Hmong Language

2. The Hmong Language 1. Hmong People 3. Natural Language Processing of Hmong 1 Table of contents

Hmong People

• sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity in southern China • a gradual southward migration in the 18th century • The Vietnam War is calamitous for the Hmong peoples of Southeast Asia, forcing many to flee permanently from the area, with approximately 300,000 setting in the United States, and lesser number elsewhere (e.g., Australia, France, Thailand) 2 Hmong People[6] • an ethnic group from China , Vietnam , Laos , and Thailand .

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• One of the 55 official minority groups of the PRC China. • Live mainly in southern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong, Hubei • about 9.6 million ”Miao” counted in the 2000 Census • Miao includes Hmong people as well as other culturally and linguistically related ethnic groups (Hmu, Kho (Qho) Xiong, and A Hmao) • The White Miao (Bai Miao) and Green Miao (Qing Miao) are Hmong groups 4 Hmong(Miao) People in China

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• Hmong Americans are most notably from Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. • Hmong Americans are one group of Asian Americans. • Many Lao Hmong war refugees resettled in the US following the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos and Laotian Civil War during the Vietnam War. • 260,076 Hmong Americans counted in the 2010 Census 6 Hmong People in U.S.[3]

• Top 10 Hmong Populations by State 1. California – 91,224 2. Minnesota – 66,181 3. Wisconsin – 49,240 4. North Carolina - 10,864 5. Michigan – 5,924 6. Colorado – 3,859 7. Georgia – 3,623 8. Alaska - 3,534 9. Oklahoma - 3,369 10. Oregon – 2,920 7 Hmong People in U.S.

Los 28) Carmichael, California Angeles, California wondo practitioner, model, spokesperson Homecoming Warrior 8 Hmong People in U.S.[2] a famous Hmong American Name: Brenda Song Born: March 27, 1988 (age Residence: Occupation: actress, taek- famous movie: Wendy Wu:

The Hmong Language

Romanized system is used. the Christian Missionary Alliance Church 9 The Hmong Language[5] • Native speakers: 6.5 million • Language family: Hmong–Mien • writing system: developed until the 1950s by missionaries from • sound system : very different from English, even though a

• Tonal language • Most words are One Syllable • Most Hmong words contain 3 parts, e.g. pab(help) 1. Consonant 2. Vowel (13 Vowels in White Hmong, 14 in Green Hmong) 3. Tone (letter that is a Tone Marker, 7 Tones in White Hmong, 8 in Green Hmong) • Hmong’s sound system and writing system are similar with Mandarin Pinyin 10 The Hmong Language[8] • Example: yo-yo(English) vs. yau b -yau m (Hmong)

11 The Hmong Language

12 The Hmong Language

13 The Hmong Language

14 Language Status

• Let’s learn a sentence![7] • LUB LUV LUJ LUJ LUG LAMW • LUB = THE LUV= CAR LUJ LUJ=BIG LUG=COME LAWM=ALREADY • LUB LUV LUJ LUJ = THE CAR BIG (Eng: THE BIG CAR) • LUG LAMW = COME ALREADY (No tense) 15 The Hmong Language[7]

Natural Language Processing of Hmong

• Bing Translation Learns Hmong Language[1] • Microsoft has added Hmong to the list of languages supported by Bing Translator. • uses new features of Microsoft Translator to train a new translation engine using parallel documents. • Online dictionary[4]: • http://www.hmongdictionary.com/index.php Language: White Hmong[9] • the development of statistical machine translation for English to/from White Hmong with very close collaboration with the native speaking language community 16 Natural Language Processing of Hmong • Lewis & Yang 2012 , Building MT for a Severely Under-Resourced

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Bing translation learns hmong language. Brenda song. Hmong 101 presentation. http://www.hmongcc.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/ Online dictionary: Hmong-english. Wikipedia: Hmong language. References I http://nlp.hivefire.com/articles/share/28517/ . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Song . hmong101presentation2012versionabridged.pdf . http://www.hmongdictionary.com/index.php . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_language .

Wikipedia: Hmong people. You tube: Learn hmong, lesson 1. You tube: Learn to read & write hmong - 3 simple steps. W. Lewis and P. Yang. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2012. References II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2-flB3AwR4 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GwhpSvZlBU . Building mt for a severely under-resourced language: White hmong.