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Category: Disambiguation Languages Hmong/Mong Religions Shamanism, Buddhism, Christianity, others The terms Hmong (IPA:) and Mong () both refer to an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China. ... |familycolor=Hmong-Mien |states=Sichuan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and USA. |speakers=over 4 million[1] |fam1=Hmong-Mien |iso2=hmn| |lc1=hmn|ld1=Hmong (generic)|ll1=none |lc2=mww|ld2=Hmong Daw (Laos, China)|ll2=none |lc3=hmv|ld3=Hmong Do (Vietnam)|ll3=none |lc4=hmf|ld4=Hmong Don (Vietnam... The Hmong-Mien or Miao-Yao languages are a small language family of southern China and Southeast Asia. ... The Hmong are a minority ethnic group of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Hmong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3935 words)
	Politically and militarily, the Hmong continued to be a stone in the shoe of the Chinese empire.
	General Vang Pao was the ethnic Hmong soldier handpicked by the CIA to lead the northern Military Region II (MR2) defense against NVA incursion.
	Hmongs have often been targets of discrimination, mainly because of job competition and stereotyping of Hmongs as welfare dependents.

Hmong - definition of Hmong in Encyclopedia (2499 words)
	The Hmong, also known as Miao (Chinese: 苗;: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mẹo or Hmông; Thai: ม้ง (mong) or แม้ว; (maew)), are an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China (especially Guizhou) that cross into northern Southeast Asia (northern Vietnam and Laos).
	It is these non-Chinese Hmong who advocate that the term Hmong be used not only for designating their dialect group, but also for the other groups living in China.
	Centuries later, many Hmong in Laos were recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as part of a plan to fight the Communist Pathet Lao movement in that country.

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