The Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA) or
Hmong RPA (also Roman Popular Alphabet), is a system of
romanization for the various dialects of the
Hmong language. Created in Laos between 1951 and 1953 by a group of missionaries and
Hmong advisers, it has gone on to become the most widespread system for writing the Hmong language in the West. It is also used in Southeast Asia and China alongside other writing systems, notably
Pahawh Hmong.