• The Iu Mien language (Iu Mien: Iu Mienh, [ju˧ mjɛn˧˩]; Chinese: 勉語 or 勉方言; Thai: ภาษาอิวเมี่ยน) is the language spoken by the Iu Mien people in China...
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    Autonomous Region in China. The Iu Mien language is categorized as belonging to the Hmong–Mien language family. Iu Mien populations can be found in Southern...
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  • Iu Mien Americans (Meiv guoqc Mienh) are primarily former refugees of the Secret War in Laos and the Vietnam War. While some Iu Mien families were granted...
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    Yao people (redirect from Mien people)
    different languages, The Iu Mien comprise 70% of the Yao population.[citation needed] Hmong–Mien languages The Mien speak Mienic languages (simplified...
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    the Hmong–Mien language family, with the other being Hmongic. Martha Ratliff (2010:3) proposed the following classification: Mienic Iu Mien, 840,000 speakers...
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  • Hill tribe (Thailand) (category CS1 Thai-language sources (th))
    under the Ministry of the Interior; nine ethnic groups (Akha, Hmong, Htin, Iu-Mien, Karen, Khamu, Lahu, Lisu and Lua) were officially recognized as Chao Khao...
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  • from the divergent Biao Min and Zao Min languages. Purnell's (1970) Proto-Yao reconstruction is based on Iu Mien (Chiengrai [Chiang Rai, in Hwei Kang Pa...
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  • Proto-Hmong–Mien (PHM), also known as Proto-Miao–Yao (PMY; Chinese: 原始苗瑶语), is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hmong–Mien languages. Lower-level reconstructions...
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  • Biao Mon is not a variety of Iu Mien and is distinct from it. Alternative names for Biao Mon include (Ethnologue): Biao Mien Biao-Mian 标勉 Biaoman 标曼 Changping...
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  • the 1950s. As with the Latin-based scripts of the Zhuang, Hmong and Iu Mien languages, it uses final consonant letters to represent tone. Consonants in...
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