I've heard some people who are green but they speak green like they are white. And then ive heard greens that speak with a really pronounced accent.
For example, some say "tag" but aren't they supposed to sound like "taag"
What you may perceive as having an accent is not. There is a dialect difference - if we can call it that. Coincidentally the white dialect branching off from Mong Leeg happened around our Mong exodus time. There is some folk lore of two distinct tribes of language differences. Hence for the correlation of same word but different meaning.
Mong Leeg is more of a poetic speech prose. The subtleties of the inflection on words goes beyond what children are capable of linguistically
. If you have a grandma or great grandma who is a vocal librarian...th
ey will tell you that they merely change over to the white dialect. No one really knows the original reason behind it. However it does correlates to the White dialect's inability to speak Mong Leeg. Whereas a Mong Leeg dialect is able to easily mimic the white dialect. Which allows for the rapid ascension of the white dialect within the last few generations to come into existence.
So in a way, most Hmong white are just converted Mong Leeg. Besides...whit
e dialect can be spoken about three times faster. Helps to cuss out someone or comically dub over movies. Those of us who fails Mong Leeg fluency being American white washed can still mimic white dialect. I wonder if that's also a coincidence.