Hmu language

Hmu
Qiandong Miao
Black Miao, hveb Hmub
Pronunciation[m̥ʰū]
Native toChina
Regionmostly Guizhou
Ethnicitymostly Miao, some Yao
Native speakers
(2.1 million cited 1995)[1]
Hmong–Mien
Standard forms
  • Standard Miao
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
hea – Northern
hmq – Eastern
hms – Southern
neo – Ná-Meo
Glottologeast2369

The Hmu language (hveb Hmub), also known as Qiandong Miao (黔东, Eastern Guizhou Miao), Central Miao (中部苗语), East Hmongic (Ratliff 2010[2]), or (somewhat ambiguously) Black Miao, is a dialect cluster of Hmongic languages of China. The best studied dialect is that of Yǎnghāo (养蒿) village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province.[2]

Qanu (咯努), a Hmu variety, had 11,450 speakers as of 2000, and is spoken just south of Kaili City, Guizhou.[3] The Qanu are ethnoculturally distinct from the other Hmu.

  1. ^ Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Eastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Ná-Meo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Ratliff, Martha (2010). Hmong–Mien language history. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/146760. ISBN 978-0-85883-615-0.
  3. ^ "Qanu" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2021-08-17 – via Asia Harvest.