White Hmong-English Dictionary

White Hmong-English Dictionary
Author: Ernest E. Heimbach
Publisher: SEAP Publications
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1980
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780877270751

Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses, and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.

Hmong Dictionary

Hmong Dictionary
Author: Jay Xiong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2003
Genre: Hmong language
ISBN: 9780972696401

This Hmong Dictionary also has a computer program which has sounds for all: . Consonants . Vowels . Tone markers . Numbers from 0-9999

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
Author: John A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2002-04-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780195218893

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Tig, Toog/Hip, Hop

Tig, Toog/Hip, Hop
Author: Catherine Hnatov
Publisher: Star Bright Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781595723673

Playful images of favorite friendly animals hop and splash, tweet and purr in captivating, contrasting black and white illustrations that will engage babies and invite them to look! Now available in Chinese/English.

Learn Hmong the Jay way

Learn Hmong the Jay way
Author: Jay Xiong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Hmong language
ISBN:

"This Third Edition is the latest version. A textbook that teaches the Hmong language to English speakers who wish to learn the Hmong language. The 3rd Edition has 40 new pages added with more drills and more example sentences with English translations. The Hmong language is a tonal language so I have added a few pages with drills to really making sure you will master the Hmong tones."--Amazon.com.

Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater

Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater
Author: Wenying Xu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1538157322

A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.

A People's History of the Hmong

A People's History of the Hmong
Author: Paul Hillmer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873517263

Based on more than 200 interviews during 2002-2009 under the auspices of the Hmong Oral History Project. Several full-text interviews are available on the project's website.

Loanwords in the World's Languages

Loanwords in the World's Languages
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110218437

"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics
Author: Keith Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521766753

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms any undergraduate or graduate student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics and English language or in other degrees involving linguistics, such as modern languages, media studies and translation. lt covers the key areas of syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics and pragmatics but also contains terms from discourse analysis, stylistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. It provides entries for 246 languages, including 'major' languages and languages regularly mentioned in research papers and textbooks. Features include cross-referencing between entries and extended entries on some terms. Where appropriate, entries contain illustrative examples from English and other languages and many provide etymologies bringing out the metaphors lying behind the technical terms. Also available is an electronic version of the dictionary which includes 'clickable' cross-referencing.