linguistic:translation, structural:expansion
Shong Lue Yang was a Hmong spiritual leader and creator of the Pahawh script, a semi-syllabary for writing dialects of the Hmong language, as well as the Khmu language. Coming under suspicion by opposing forces, he was assassinated in February 1971, during the Laotian Civil War. It was also rumored that General Vang Pao gave his brother-in-law, who has killed many people, the order to kill Shong Lue Yang due to fear and jealousy. He is honored as the "Mother of Writing" among the Hmong people. Like the Cherokee Sequoyah of the early 19th century in Indian Territory, Shong Lue Yang is one of the few people from a pre-literate society known in history to have independently created an effective writing system.