Guiyang Miao, also known as Guiyang Hmong, is a

Miao language Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicod ...

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. It is named after Guiyang County,

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, though not all varieties are spoken there. The

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is ''Hmong'', a name it shares with the

Hmong language Hmong / Mong (; RPA: ''Hmoob,'' ; Nyiakeng Puachue: ; Pahawh: , ) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, ...

Classification

Guiyang was given as a subgroup of Western Hmongic in Wang (1985). Matisoff (2001) separated the three varieties as distinct Miao languages, not forming a group. Wang (1994) adds another two minor, previously unclassified varieties. *Northern *Southern *Southwestern *Northwestern ('' Qianxi'' 黔西) *South-Central (''

Ziyun Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County (; Bouyei: ) is a county in the southwest of Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative div ...

'' 紫云) Mo Piu, spoken in northern

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, may be a divergent variety of Guiyang Miao. Representative dialects of Guiyang Miao include: *Baituo 摆托,

Huaxi District Huaxi District () is one of 6 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, Southwest China. Huaxi has an area of and a population of 328,700. Its GDP was 4.35 billion RMB in 2006. It is named af ...

Guiyang Guiyang (; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), historically rendered as Kweiyang, is the capital of Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in the center of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, ...

*Tieshi 铁石, Qianxi County *Zhongba 中坝,

Changshun County Changshun County () is a county of Guizhou, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (; Buyei: ''Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy''; Hmu: ''Qeef ...

References

West Hmongic languages Languages of China {{HmongMien-lang-stub