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California English (or Californian English) is the collection of English dialects native to California, largely classified under Western American English.Most Californians speak with a General American accent; alternatively viewed, possibly due to unconscious linguistic prestige, California accents may themselves be serving as a baseline to define the accents that are perceived as "General ...
Miao (苗) is the Chinese name and the one used by Miao in China.However, Hmong is more familiar in the West, due to Hmong emigration. Hmong is the biggest subgroup within the Hmongic peoples.
The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) [1] are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the ...
The author of Guoyu, written in the 4th to 5th century, considered Chi You's Jiu Li tribe to be related to the ancient ancestors of the Hmong, the San-Miao people. [39] Chi You is the Hmong ancestral God of War. Today, a statue of Chi You has been erected in the town named Zhuolu. [40]
Kev Dab Kev Qhuas (Hmong folk spirituality or Miao folk spirituality) is the common ethnic religion of the Miao people, best translated as the "practice of spirituality". [1] The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States .
A small earthquake was reported in Northern California on Friday afternoon. A 3.4-magnitude earthquake shook San Jose about 3:15 p.m. local time. According to the United States Geological Survey ...
Miao may refer to: Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China; Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages; Miao (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Pollard script; Miào (庙), a Chinese temple
For example, the medials and are pronounced with such tight openings at the beginning of a final that some native Chinese speakers (especially when singing) pronounce yī (衣; 'clothes'), officially pronounced /í/, as /jí/ and wéi (围; 圍; 'to enclose'), officially pronounced /uěi/, as /wěi/ or /wuěi/. Often these medials are treated ...