A Study of Hmong Handwriting

The handwriting of Hmong people who learned to write in Southeast Asia was collected and studied to see if there were any class characteristics or unusual habits present in the writing that could identify it as having been produced by a Hmong writer. Of interest is the fact that the Hmong people had no written language before 1953 when one was developed for them that uses the Roman alphabet. No identifiable class characteristics or habits were identified. However, a large percentage of the writers used more hand printing or penlifts than normally encountered by the author.