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William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang and Gnia Yee Yang (1990). Mother of writing: the origin and development of a Hmong messianic script. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 222 + xii.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

William J. Poser
Affiliation:
Stanford University

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