Hmong Lanuage

[HmoobNerd]

Okay, is it just me or is that we Hmong are losing are language. I mean we are constantly substituting enlgish words for hmong words that we already have in hmong. For example, common words that my family barely use in hmong are mom, dad, phone, school, car, bad, stupid, toy, sit, etc. You know what I mean. Try to talk for Hmong only for one full hour. It's harder than you think! Even though we do not have a lot of hmong words that the english language does I am trying to use every hmong word that I can. Even though it feels king of weird, but I am getting use to it. I feel that we should protect our language!  

[Raynkazuya]

I know they say the first love is the sweetest ,

Uhh no ?
I don't think so .
Just change your lifestyle .
See 'cos if you're fobbish , and came to America ,
you'd speak Hmong more than English right ?
Yes you would 'cos you had a different lifestyle . . .
and you weren't introduced to Engish as much .
[ being fobbish isn't my point . ]
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But that first cut is the deepest .

 

[Mintyfreshyo]

I believe it's on one person's point of view. I say that the new generation of HTTs are going to keep this language up. But! If they start teaching their kids english more than hmong, we truly will lose our language.  

[azn_knight367]

It kinda depends if you live in a Hmong populated community. With more Hmong people around you, generally, you'll have more reasons to speak Hmong. What I notice was that people who's grandparents live with/near them speak Hmong more because the old people don't know much English, generally. For me, the Hmong community here isn't too big, and my grandmothers live at least a state away. I don't speak Hmong much  

[Swat Team Leader]

*nods my head* For me... i know more English than Hmong. I am going to Minnesota to learn Hmong or more... to read and write it. But yeah.... my parents never teach me it.... So it's time for me to learn it. =w=  

[silver_avenger]

I don't believe that our language is lost yet. There are plenty of Hmong kids out there that still can speak Hmong.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

my parents didn't teach me Japanese . So It time for me to learn Japanese and Chinese Madrian. i was gonna to learn Korean.  

[azn_knight367]

How I learned to read Hmong was by singing, like in church we sing Hmong songs and the words are on the projector  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

Oh wow really? Cool  

[Mahikokatoru]

Are the Hmong losing their language? Well, similar to what some are saying, it depends on the individual's thinking. To some, we are and to others, we're not.

However, to me, I think that any culture living in a "foreign" land are required to speak that land's main language in order to survive in that society. The Hmong in America or the Hmong in China, Laos, Thailand, Europe, New Guinea, Australia, etc are all living in "foreign" lands, so they are all required to speak the main language of that land. And if a group of people live in a different place for a long enough time (generation after generation), they will later lose their home language.

What I am getting at is that I do think the Hmong are losing their language. I live in the second most Hmong populated state in America and I see at least one other Hmong person everyday. Most of the younger Hmong are speaking more English than Hmong. Yup. That's it.

(Note: foreign is in " " because it is unknown where the Hmong originated)

[Edit] The Hmong language also have words from the chinese, lao and thai language as well as English.  

[Swat Team Leader]

You think Hmong people should have their own country?  

[CrimsonsDecayingRose]

Swat Team Leader

You think Hmong people should have their own country?

Think back a few threads, we CREATED our own island, man!!  

[The Dadalorian]

i've noticed it's kind of slangy with the newr generation, when i learned it from my companion people would ask if i was speaking green hmong, and they said i kept switching back and forth. i don't think shamanism will last many more generations either  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

I think we should learn our own language. I think it wrong to lose the language that your given in your culture saying that English is important. but Also it is important to speak Japanese.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

I think it is true we are losing our culture speaking language. it sad.