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    The Iu Mien (Iu Mienh 勉) Iu Mien people are a subgroup of the Pan Yao branch of the Yao nationality, which is the largest of the three major Yao groups...
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  • The Iu Mien language (Iu Mien: Iu Mienh, [ju˧ mjɛn˧˩]; Chinese: 勉語 or 勉方言; Thai: ภาษาอิวเมี่ยน) is the language spoken by the Iu Mien people in China (where...
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  • Iu Mien Americans (Meiv guoqc Mienh) are primarily former refugees of the Secret War in Laos and the Vietnam War. While some Iu Mien families were granted...
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    891,151 in the 2019 Vietnamese census. An estimated 60,000 Yao of the Iu Mien branch reside in the United States, mostly in the Western coastal states...
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  • and was ruled by the king of the Iu Mien people. The last Iu Mien king was King Pan, the namesake of the modern Iu Mien surnames: Phan, Saephanh, Saephan...
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    pattern is the Iu Mien people, who apparently passed through Vietnam during the 13th century, prior to entering Thailand through Laos. The Iu Mien arrived in...
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    Hmongic. Martha Ratliff (2010:3) proposed the following classification: Mienic Iu Mien, 840,000 speakers Kim Mun, 400,000 speakers Biao Min, 43,000 speakers...
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  • Hoa people San Diu people or "Mountain Yao"/"Mountain Chinese ", Yao people who speak an archaic dialect of Cantonese as well as Iu Mien People of Vietnamese...
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  • Mień, Poland Mien (lake), in southern Sweden 7706 Mien, a main-belt asteroid Mien crater, a meteorite crater in southern Sweden Iu Mien Americans, primarily...
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  • speak a variant of Cantonese, and it is suggested that some still speak Iu Mien.[citation needed] The major religions are Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism...
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  • Cambodian Americans Filipino Americans Hmong Americans Indonesian Americans Iu Mien Americans Laotian Americans Malaysian Americans Singaporean Americans Thai...
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  • 江底; Iu Mien, Guangdian [ium] Xiangjiang 湘江; Iu Mien, Xiangnan [ium] Luoxiang 罗香; Luoxiang Mien a.k.a. Ao Biao [ium] Changping 长坪; Changping Mien a.k.a...
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  • Kim Mun language (category Mienic languages)
    Hainan Province. There are also speakers in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Iu Mien and Kim Mun are similar to each other, having a lexical similarity percentage...
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  • (population of 200,000 in Laos) Hmong Njua (population of 245,600 in Laos) Iu Mien (population of 20,250, also called Yao) Kim Mun (population of 4,500 in...
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    Retrieved 2022-11-07. MacDonald, Jeffery L. (1997). Transnational Aspects of Iu-Mien Refugee Identity. Taylor & Francis. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-8153-2994-7. 中国气象数据网...
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    royal Lao family, recruited and trained his Hmong and Iu-Mien soldiers. The Hmong and Iu-Mien were targeted as allies after President John F. Kennedy...
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  • Pingli in Baise Pan 盘 (Mian 棉): Iu Mien; spoken in Shibajia, Jingui'ao 金龟坳, and Fenzhan 奋战; also in Gunhuai, Baise; an East Mien dialect of Xin'an 新安 and Nadui...
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    different peoples, including the Vietnamese, the Sino-Vietnamese Hoa, Cambodians fleeing the Khmer Rouge and hunger, ethnic Laotians, Iu Mien, Hmong, other...
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  • Lists of Americans are lists of people from the United States. They are grouped by various criteria, including ethnicity, religion, state, city, occupation...
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    Americans, are the Indigenous peoples of the land that the United States is located on. At its core, it includes peoples indigenous to the lower 48 states...
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    citizens and nationals of the United States. The United States is home to people of many racial and ethnic origins; consequently, American law does not equate...
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    ancestry related to Austronesian, Kra-Dai and Hmong-Mien people compared to southern Han. Tanka people had their own unique genetic structure, but kept a...
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    Jewish Phenomenon: The 7 Keys to the Wealth of a People, by Steven Silbiger, 2010, Evans Publishing. This article includes a people-related list of lists....
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    first settle by Yao or Mien ethnic during the CIA war. Chao La was chief of this village. His family and the families of other Mien officials and military...
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    Lao Sung (category Hill people)
    [láːw sǔːŋ]) is an official Laotian designation for highland dwelling peoples of Hmong, Yao and Tibeto-Burman origins in Laos (the others being the Lao...
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    Lai Châu province (category Hani people)
    500,000 people. Languages (apart from Vietnamese language) spoken in Lai Châu province include the following: Hmong–Mien languages Hmong Iu Mien Tai languages...
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    also known as Caucasian Americans, are Americans who identify as white people. In a more official sense, the United States Census Bureau, which collects...
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  • during the 1950s. As with the Latin-based scripts of the Zhuang, Hmong and Iu Mien languages, it uses final consonant letters to represent tone. Consonants...
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    partial Romani ancestry. It is estimated that there are one million Romani people in the United States. Though the Romani population in the United States...
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    in the United States. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. While some Black immigrants...
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