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Pingtang Miao

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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):

  • North (Strecker's Pingtang Miao), 11,000 speakers
  • East (Strecker's Dushan Miao), 4,000
  • South (Strecker's Luodian–Pingyan Miao), 6,000
  • West (Strecker's Wangmo–Luodian Miao AKA Mhang), 3,000
  • 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