Aspects of Green Hmong grammar

Abstract

Many of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia fled to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War. Most of the Hmong populations in the United States today speak one of two closely related dialects of the Hmong language, White and Green Hmong. Of the two, White Hmong has seen significantly more representation in linguistic literature to date. I make use of the literature that does exist regarding Green Hmong and several sources that discuss White Hmong to provide a general description of the grammatical structure that underlies simple sentences in Green Hmong.