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Iu Mien American Youth - Lunar New Year Celebration. The Iu Mien people (Iu Mienh 勉) are a subgroup of the Pan Yao branch of the Yao nationality, which is the largest of the three major Yao groups according to the Nationalities Affairs Commission of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.
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 political asylum and the opportunity to resettle in the United States prior to 1980, the great majority of Iu Mien immigrants to the U.S. arrived following the Refugee Act of 1980.
The US delegation took the new writing system to the Iu Mien community in the United States where it was adopted with a vote of 78 to 7 by a conference of Mien American community leaders. This writing system based on the Latin alphabet was designed to be pan-dialectal; it distinguishes 30 syllable initials, 121 syllable finals and eight tones.
Cheng “Charlie” Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash emblazoned with the words “Iu-Mien USA” as he hoisted an oversized check for $1.3 billion above his head. The 46-year-old ...
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 (where they are considered a constituent group of the Yao peoples), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and, more recently, the United States in diaspora.
7 Hmong-Mien. 8 Tai and Rau. 9 Chinese. 10 Unclassified. 11 See also. 12 References. ... Iu Mien (population of 20,250, also called Yao) [2] Kim Mun (population of ...
This comes from Hmong customs and culture since their ancestors. To begin with, a ritual celebration must take place before sunset to end the current year. [46] In Laos, the Lao government calls Hmong Noj Peb Caug Xyoo Tshiab (Hmong New Year) "Kin Tiang" [49] [50] instead of calling it New Year. The Hmong generally honor both their ancestors ...
The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) [1] are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the ...