Native to China Native speakers 180,000 (1995) | Region Guizhou Dialects Raojia | |
Language family Hmong–Mien
Hmongic
West Hmongic
Huishui Miao ISO 639-3 Variously:
hmc – Central
hme – Eastern
hmi – Northern
hmh – Southwestern | ||
Huishui Miao, a.k.a. Huishui Hmong, is a Miao language of China. It is named after Huishui County, Guizhou, though not all varieties are spoken there. The endonym is Mhong, though it shares this with Gejia and it is simply a variant spelling of Hmong. Raojia is closely related.
Huishui was given as a subgroup of Western Hmongic in Strecker (1987). Matisoff (2001) split it into four separate languages, and, conservatively, did not retain it as a group.
References
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