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==Orthography==
The alphabet was developed to write both the Hmong Der (White Hmong, RPA: ''Hmoob Dawb'') and Mong Leng (Green/Blue Mong, RPA: ''Moob Leeg'') dialects. While these dialects have much in common, each has unique sounds. Consonants and vowels found only in <span style="background:#EEE8AA">
Phonology adapted from: {{Harvcoltxt|Golston|Yang|2001}} and {{Harvcoltxt|Smalley|Vang|Yang|1990|pp=48–51}}. See also: Mortensen, David. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060906061745/http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~dmort/mong_leng_phonology.pdf "Preliminaries to Mong Leng (Hmong Njua) Phonology"] ([
===Consonants and vowels===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Occlusive consonants
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!rowspan="2"| Occlusives||colspan="4"|Nasals||colspan="9"|Stops||rowspan="2" |<br>l||colspan="2"|Affricates
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Fricative consonants
!rowspan="2"|Fricatives||colspan="2"|Labial||colspan="3"|Coronal||colspan="2"|Dorsal||colspan="1"|Glottal
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!scope="col"| s
!scope="col"| z
!scope="col"| y▼
!scope="col"| xy
▲!scope="col"| y
!scope="col"| h
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| align=center | || align=center | {{IPA|/f/}} || align=center | {{IPA|/v/}} || align=center | {{IPA|/s/}} || align=center | {{IPA|/ʂ/}} || align=center | {{IPA|/ʐ/}} || align=center | {{IPA|/
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===Tones===
RPA indicates tone by letters written at the end of a syllable,<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Clark|2000|p=47}}</ref>
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*[http://www.moob.org/ Mong Literacy] – includes lessons on writing Mong Leng with RPA
*http://www.hmongrpa.org/
*[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-sc-zq Father Yves Bertrais papers, 1950-2007]
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