GRR DAYM IT!! IT'S PRONOUNCED MONG, THE DAYN H IS SILENT AND THE O IS DAYM SILENT

HAMONG!

LOL.
I got this wrong once & the girl was like..."omg nevermind"

YOU'RE GONNA BE TEMP BANNED!!

hamong hamong hamong hamong.. :X

just jk

HAMONG!

i always read that in my mind when i see the word

^^

well my parents are laos and my mom is hmong...so i know how its pronouced...haha...

Hmongy

i always said
"h- Mung"

Tanks 4 the edumication - lol HAMONG - I was close I pronounced it Hee-Mong - Now I know. Mong "H" is silent and the "O" is mute

MONG eh, okay thx shinee

Glad you said something. I was pronouncing the "H" the entire time

I guess this wasn't as pointless as I thought.. Maybe you should pin it in the "Hamong" Chat

um no it's prononunced mongolian

wait wait.. so its suppose to be "mung"?

its too hard now
i always thought it pronounced hamong
and now saying mong
its too hard

-.-...H..silent..O..long..XD

who da hell cares how it is pronounced jus cal them... hong

I knew the pronounciation..I just never knew it has an "H" before.

hahaha

HAMONG!

Ah, okay. I always wanted to ask how it's supposed to be pronounced but it kept slipping my mind. The only time I ever heard anyone say it in real life was when this white guy asked me if I was "huh-mong"...

I knew how this was pronounced. I asked my father about hmong people so I knew.

hahaha. yeah, i find it annoying too. quit saying hamong. it's mong. some of my stupid white friends used to say H-Mong.

Learn something new everyday. It's going to be hard to break the habit. I still say celtic wrong. And a couple other words too despite knowing the correct pronouciation. I probably sound like a know-it-all when someone corrects me.

'You know it's not Hamong, right? It's Mong.'
'I know.'

$hit and i've still been doing it

it's just like. it's wite, and not Wa-Hite.

I already knew that. I visited Fresno and 209 before.

congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friend pronounces it "Eich-Mong", I don't even want to get into that.

Why would you post that up here?

it was originally in the Off Topic forum

I see....heh...do the other Asians in here even know who Hmong people are?

^most of them say they never knew what hmong was until they joined AF

I said her-mong which means bare butts in Vietnamese

I already say 'mong' and not 'hamong' and I've never met a hmong person before

lol. heh. don't care. i still say it like there's an h in front. it sounds like a breath before i say mong. cause that's what it looks like. haha. iunno where pplwould get the A in hamong though.

ha ~~~> a "h" makes that sound

meh. make's a hh when i say it.

it's likethe only consonant i can sayw/o a vowel next to it.

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I wonder why it's spelled with a silent H?

Cause maybe if it's Mong, they'll think Mongolian (sp)

Ah the good ole days..

Wait...you said the "o" is silent? How?

I used to think it was Huhmong until recently. I didn't even know what "Hmong" was until like a year ago. I don't think I've even met anyone who's Hmong.

But it shouldn't be that surprising that most people don't know how to pronounce it, if you weren't Hmong wouldn't you mispronounce it too?

Now why would somebody be so misleading as to put an "H" in front of another consonant and think someone was gonna automatically know how to pronounce it right?

I think everyone should get mad at whoever spelled it that way.

We just pronounce it how it's spelled.

The term struck me an monosyllabic.

Hmong from China are called "Miao", because they originated from a place called "Sanmiao"

I thought it was one syllable too....just with a "huh" sound...

cause the hmong way of spelling it is hmoob. where the H is silent again. so i guess they're just trying to make it similar.

why dont they just drop the H then?
does the h-mung language use romanized characters?

^yup, because there's not a distinct form of an original hmong writing system that we know of right now. There probably was one, but hmong history has many unknown records and holes that we don't know about.