Guiyang Miao

Guiyang Miao
Hmong
Native to China
Region Guizhou
Native speakers
 190,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
huj – Northern
hmy – Southern
hmg – Southwestern
Glottolog guiy1235[2]

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.

Classification

Guiyang was given as a subgroup of Western Hmongic in Wang (1985).[3] Matisoff (2001) separated the three varieties as distinct Miao languages, not forming a group. Wang (1994) adds another two minor, previously unclassified varieties.[4]

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

Mo Piu may also be a variety of Guiyang Miao.

Representative dialects of Guiyang Miao include:[5]

References

  1. ↑ Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guiyang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ 王辅世主编，《苗语简志》，民族出版社，1985年。
  4. ↑ 李云兵，《苗语方言划分遗留问题研究》，中央民族大学出版社，2000年。
  5. ↑ Mortensen, David (2004). “The Development of Tone Sandhi in Western Hmongic: A New Hypothesis”. Unpublished, UC Berkeley. http://www.pitt.edu/~drm31/development_whmongic_tone_sandhi.pdf


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