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Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script Paperback - 1990
by William A. Smalley
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This is the story of Shong Lue Yang, whose followers called him 'Mother [Source] of Writing, ' and of his creation of an alphabet for, not one, but two quite unrelated languages.
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- Title Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script
- Author William A. Smalley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 229
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 1990-06-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226762876 / 0226762874
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 6.03 x 0.59 in (22.83 x 15.32 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-39956
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Paperback / softback. New. 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…
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Chicago : White Lotus Press, 1990. Paperback. Good. 1.00. Smalley, William A., Chia Koua Vang & Gnia Yee Yang. 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 peoples long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as Mother (Source) of Writing. This work provides a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use. In addition, it gives an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lues life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lues death, first by handwriting, then by primitive movable type, an abortive attempt to design a wooden typewriter, and finally by modern word processing. In a moving concluding chapter, Smalley discusses his own complex feelings about his…
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