This makes the Hmong language one of the most musical languages in the world. The entire language can be whistled, communicated through musical notes, which makes it one of only a handful of languages in the world that has evolved such a system! These are not lyrics, these are not a song, these are real words, and they make the Hmong language pretty unique. Of the few that exist, most whistled languages are tonal and exist in Central America and Africa – where most tonal languages exist. But the
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This makes the Hmong language one of the most musical languages in the world. The entire language can be whistled, communicated through musical notes, which makes it one of only a handful of languages in the world that has evolved such a system! These are not lyrics, these are not a song, these are real words, and they make the Hmong language pretty unique. Of the few that exist, most whistled languages are tonal and exist in Central America and Africa – where most tonal languages exist. But the
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Hmonglish Episode 1: Learn a Hmong whistled language: on the first episode of Hmonglish, we briefly go over a Hmong flute language – Hmoob cov lus raj – from tones and notes to linguistics and music! There’s a belief that the Hmong didn’t understand how their language worked until it was alphabetized in the 1950’s – but the systems behind our whistled languages really do disprove that – they’re methodic structures that couldn’t exist without having a firm grasp on one’s linguistics! The Hmong ha
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