tsheb nqaj hlau a word from Vocabulary White Hmong White Hmong
entries in this field appear in the Romanized Popular Alphabet
designed by linguists working in Laos and Thailand in the 1950s.
It is more widely used than any other orthography by White Hmong
people in the diaspora. For the most part, the values of the
symbols are what one would expect (so <c> is in fact a voiceless
palatal stop and <q> is in fact a voiceless uvular stop), with
the following exceptions: 1) Since there is only one possible
final consonant in a Hmong word—[ŋ]—consonant symbols in word-
final position have been used to indicate tones: high level
<-b>, high falling <-j>, mid rising <-v>, low level <-s>, mid
level <-ø>, falling breathy <-g>, and low creaky <-m>. 2) The
final [ŋ] is indicated by a doubling of the vowel: <-oo-> is
thus [oŋ]. 3) Certain symbols have special values: 4) In
prenasalized clusters, the nasal is always written <n>, even
though it assimilates to the following consonant (npua ‘pig’ is
thus pronounced [mpua]). Add