Speaking Hmong in diaspora: language contact, resilience, and change

该项目旨在调查苗族语言如何在散居中生存，特别关注语言如何根据其所处的环境进行自我转变。我们关注北昆士兰移民社区中苗族人的结构和维护，跨越几代人，在涉及澳大利亚英语和老挝语的多语言曲目的背景下。结果将揭示语言变化的过程和结果，如出现一种新的绿白苗族混合。该项目将为在多语言移民社区的大背景下维持流散的苗族人提供重大好处。

The project aims to investigate the how the Hmong language survives in the diaspora, with special focus on how the language transforms itself depending on the environment it finds itself in. We focus on the structure and maintenance of Hmong within the immigrant community in North Queensland across several generations of speakers, within the context of multilingual repertoires involving Australian English and Lao. The outcomes will reveal the processes and results of language change such as the emergence of a new blend of Green and White Hmong. The project will provide significant benefits for the maintenance of diasporic Hmong within a larger context of multilingual immigrant communities.