Guiyang Miao language

Guiyang Miao, also known as Guiyang Hmong, is a Miao language of China. It is named after Guiyang County, Guizhou, though not all varieties are spoken there. The endonym is Hmong, a name it shares with the Hmong language.

Guiyang Miao
Hmong
Native toChina
RegionGuizhou
Native speakers
(190,000 cited 1995)[1]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
huj – Northern
hmy – Southern
hmg – Southwestern
Glottologguiy1235

Classification

Guiyang was given as a subgroup of Western Hmongic in Wang (1985).[2] Matisoff (2001) separated the three varieties as distinct Miao languages, not forming a group. Wang (1994) adds another two minor, previously unclassified varieties.[3]

  • Northern
  • Southern
  • Southwestern
  • Northwestern (Qianxi 黔西)
  • South-Central (Ziyun 紫云)

Mo Piu, spoken in northern Vietnam, may be a divergent variety of Guiyang Miao.[4]

Representative dialects of Guiyang Miao include:[5]

References
  1. Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Wang, Fushi 王辅世, ed. (1985). Miáoyǔ jiǎnzhì 苗语简志 (in Chinese). Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
  3. Li, Yunbing 李云兵 (2000). Miáoyǔ fāngyán huàfēn yíliú wèntí yánjiū 苗语方言划分遗留问题研究 (in Chinese). Beijing Shi: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.
  4. Ly Van Tu, Jean-Cyrille; Vittrant, Alice (2014). Place of Mơ Piu in the Hmong Group: A Proposal. Presented at SEALS 24, Yangon, Myanmar – via Academia.edu.
  5. Mortensen, David (2004). "The Development of Tone Sandhi in Western Hmongic: A New Hypothesis" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-24 – via pitt.edu.


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