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

该项目旨在调查苗语如何在侨民中生存，特别关注这种语言如何根据它所处的环境进行自我转换。我们的重点是在涉及澳大利亚英语和老挝语的多语言剧目的背景下，通过几代说话者在北昆士兰移民社区内的苗语的结构和维护。结果将揭示语言变化的过程和结果，例如出现了绿色和白色苗族的新混合。该项目将为在多语言移民社区的更大范围内维持散居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.