Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning. |
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Two or more one-syllable words may be joined together, however, usually connected by a hyphen, to form a compound word. |
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People who are pining for easy, one-syllable answers find this kind of uninformed derisiveness compelling. |
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To increase the number of potential associations to the target, I chose as targets simple, one-syllable homographs. |
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