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Hmong Culture & History / Re: What is the Original language? White or Green?

« on: January 11, 2013, 05:34:12 PM »

Chidorix0x,

Please don't use Mong again in your spelling. Whether it's Hmong Dawb or Ntsuab we are all Hmong and the name should ONLY be spelled Hmong,,, not Mong (or Mhong or HMong or whatever variation). By accepting(?) and writing Mong you are giving credence to some of the Ntsuab (not all, but just a minority of them) who advocate for the name distinction. If you want unity, then don't accept this other spelling as it will invariably complicate and convolute the matter further... Now it's not the Chinese dividing Hmong anymore but Hmong are doing the job themselves.

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Hmong Culture & History / Re: What is the Original language? White or Green?

« on: January 11, 2013, 01:15:27 PM »

Me personally, I  give up the idea.  Without solid background/history books about us specifically, there is no way we will ever find out about past accurately.  Everything is just a hearsay.  It's all about  "he says, she says, they say, this or that person says this and that."  Where are the books that back up anyone's claims?  None.  We Hmong live by "words of mouth," not by written formulas, for centuries, thousands of years,  ever since who knows.  Not a single written record whatsoever.

That's why I give up.  It's pointless.  We should start from 1975 and  forward.    That way at least the future Hmong will know up to that year.

I share similar sentiments to yours as well. We probably won't ever know with a high degree of certainty what our original language was. Or perhaps maybe we are still holding to remnants of it? And maybe this is it (with modifications and added vocabs of course)? Who really knows.

However, we shouldn't use the 1975 mark (when we lost the war and immigrated?) as a definitive starting point for future Hmong to look back to and reference that as being the Hmong language/culture. I'm guessing you're just jesting here? Anyways we as a whole have ancestors whom still recall the migration from Southern China to Nyablajteb and LosTsuas so if there's a "starting point" it should be from this time frame. That way we won't have the christian influence perverting our Hmong culture and language, thus future Hmong will still realize that it's a foreign religion and shouldn't be part of our ways.