Pahawh Hmong
Pahawh Hmong is a script for the Southeast Asian Hmong language that was introduced by the farmer Shong Lue Yang in 1959 . The spread of this scripture was accompanied by a messianic movement. Shong Lue Yang believed himself to be a god and claimed that he was given pahawh from heaven for the Hmong people. He worked tirelessly to improve his writing until he was murdered by government soldiers in 1971 .
Pahawh Hmong is only used by followers of Shong Lue Yang today, but most Hmong are still proud of him and that their people have developed their own writing system. Pahawh Hmong is also used by the Hmong communities in California and Minnesota .
In June 2014, the font was included in the Unicode 7.0 standard as the Unicode block Pahawh Hmong (U + 16B00 – U + 16B7F).
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- ↑ Unicode 7.0.0. Unicode Consortium, June 16, 2014, accessed June 17, 2014 .