Wiktionary:About Hmong
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Hmong (RPA: Hmoob), also spelled Mong (RPA: Moob), and also known as Miao in China, is a group of languages. It is sometimes considered a dialect continuum, but its dozens of members are not mutually intelligible.
Hmong Daw edit
The Hmong Daw ("White Hmong", RPA: Hmoob Dawb) variety of Hmong uses several tones. These are represented in RPA as follows:
| high | -b | pob (“ball”) |
| high falling | -j | poj (“female”) |
| mid rising | -v | pov (“throw”) |
| mid | -∅ | po (“spleen”) |
| mid low (breathy) | -g | pog (“paternal grandmother”) |
| low | -s | pos (“thorn”) |
| low falling (creaky) | -m | pom (“see”) |
| low rising | -d | (occurs in place of -m at the end of phrases) |