01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Pahawh Hmong
A unique syllabary said to have been revealed through divine inspiration to Hmong leader Shong Lue Yang in 1959.
A unique syllabary said to have been revealed through divine inspiration to Hmong leader Shong Lue Yang in 1959. Its structure is entirely unlike other writing systems — uniquely using syllable finals rather than initials as its base. For the Hmong diaspora who migrated to the US and France after the Vietnam War, this script became a central symbol of identity. Added to Unicode in 2009.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
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Glyph evolution
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH