Native to China Native speakers 24,000 (1995) Linguist list ping Pingtang | Region Guizhou ISO 639-3 None (mis) | |
Language family Hmong–Mien
Hmongic
West Hmongic
Pingtang Miao |
Pingtang Miao, named after Pingtang County (平塘 píngtáng) in which it is spoken, is a group of Miao languages of China.
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Classification
The four varieties of Pingtang were listed as unclassified branches of Chuanqiandian Miao (Western Hmongic) in Wang (1983). Li (2000) classified them together as one of eight branches of Western Hmongic, a position maintained in Wu and Yang (2010).
Varieties
There are four varieties of Pingtang according to Li (2000):
These are at approximately the distance of the varieties of the other branches of West Hmongic, which Ethnologue assigned separate ISO codes.
References
Pingtang Miao Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA