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    The Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao (Chinese: 柏格理苗文; pinyin: Bó Gélǐ Miáo-wén) or Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and...
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    There was also the alphasyllabary (or abugida) devised by Sam Pollard, the Pollard script for the Miao language spoken in Yunnan province, which he adapted...
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    shorthand.: 285, 301  Canadian syllabics would in turn influence the Pollard script, which is used to write various Hmong-Mien and Lolo-Burmese languages...
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  • Hmong writing (redirect from Hmong script)
    referred to in the Qing dynasty book, 洞溪纤志. The Pollard script was published in 1922 by Sam Pollard for writing A-Hmao, a Hmongic language in Sichuan...
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    The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...
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    Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic script)
    primarily by a consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation. In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics. The placing of the...
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    Dunging script Gayo script Malesung script Minangkabau script Mongondow script Nias script Sangir script Romanized Popular Alphabet (Hmong RPA) Pollard script...
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  • Look up pollard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pollard may refer to: Pollard, Alabama, a town Pollard, Arkansas, a city Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated...
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    Bilang-bilang script – Buginese Mandombe Meroitic – Meroë Mwangwego – Chewa and other Bantu languages of Malawi Pitman Shorthand Pollard script – Miao Sapalo...
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    spread to Zhaotong. Pollard also invented a script for the Miao languages called the Pollard Script (also sometimes called the "Ahmao script"). He credited...
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    derivatives modify the following consonant to represent vowels. The Pollard script, which was based on shorthand, also uses diacritics for vowels; the...
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  • Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages Miao (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Pollard script Miào (庙)...
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  • A-Hmao language (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    the language the Pollard script was designed for, and displays extensive tone sandhi. There is a high degree of literacy in Pollard among the older generation...
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  • Tangut and Pollard scripts. Armenian, Georgian, and Glagolitic may fit in this category, though their origin is not known. Many scripts are created for...
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    China. Unlike most written Yi languages, Nasu uses the Pollard script. A distinct form of the Yi script was traditionally used for Wusa, though few can still...
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    Supplementary Special-purpose Plane. Also included are: Tengwar Cirth Pollard script The first two are not yet approved for use in Unicode, and therefore...
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    Languages of China (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    Manchu alphabet The Hmong people – Hmongic languages – Hmong writing (Pollard script, Pahawh Hmong, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, etc.) The Kazakhs – Kazakh language...
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  • continue to use the Pollard script, which was familiar to Christians from their reading of older materials, or to use the new script promulgated by the...
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    certain whether or not the Hmong had a script historically. Around 1905, Samuel Pollard introduced the Pollard script, for the A-Hmao language, an abugida...
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    adopted their own writing systems. Japan developed the katakana and hiragana scripts, Korea created hangul, and Vietnam developed chữ Nôm (now rarely used in...
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  • Miao is a Unicode block containing characters of the Pollard script, used for writing the Hmong Daw and A-Hmao languages. The following Unicode-related...
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  • Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Lolo–Burmese Loloish Lisoish Lipo–Lolopo Lipo Writing system Pollard script Language codes ISO 639-3 lpo Glottolog lipo1242...
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  • teacher, invented Pitman shorthand in 1837. Sam Pollard - British missionary, invented Pollard script in 1905. Parley P. Pratt - American Mormon leader...
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  • Pollard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. J. Pollard (born 1941), English medieval historian Al Pollard (1928–2002), American...
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  • ISO 15924 (redirect from ISO script code)
    for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used...
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  • Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support...
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    resistance to Han Chinese. The British missionary Samuel Pollard, for instance, devised the Pollard Script for writing the Miao language in order to translate...
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  • S. Marshal Mason Pollard, the supporting cast includes Jacky Lai, McKinley Belcher III and Eddie Ramos. U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in "erasing"...
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  • Samuel Pollard, creator of Pollard script (Chinese: 柏格理苗文 Bó Gélǐ Miao-wen). The main building of the Hopkins–Nanjing Center is named in Pollard's honour...
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    and others. Apart from producing documentaries, Pollard runs a company that provides historical and script consultancy for historical feature films and television...
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