Guiyang Miao

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

Guiyang Miao, AKA 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]

• Baituo 摆托, Huaxi District, Guiyang
• Tieshi 铁石, Qianxi County
• Zhongba 中坝, Changshun County

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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Guiyang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: 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 Unpublished, UC Berkeley.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