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.
| Huishui Miao | |
|---|---|
| Mhong | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Guizhou |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Hmong–Mien
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:hmc – Centralhme – Easternhmi – Northernhmh – Southwestern |
| Glottolog | huis1239 |
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.
Demographics
editBelow is a list of Miao dialects and their respective speaker populations and distributions from Li (2018),[2] along with representative datapoints from Wang (1985).[3]
| Dialect | Speakers | Counties | Representative datapoint (Wang 1985) |
|---|---|---|---|
| North | 60,000 | Guiyang (including in Huaxi Gaopo 花溪区高坡乡), Longli, Guiding, Huishui | Jiading 甲定寨, Gaopo Township 高坡苗族乡, Guiyang City |
| Central | 40,000+ | Huishui, Changshun | Baijin Township 摆金乡, Huishui County |
| East | 10,000+ | Huishui, Pingtang | Xiguan Township 西关乡, Pingtang County |
| West | 50,000 | Huishui, Changshun | Yarong Township 鸭绒乡, Huishui County |
According to Sun (2017), the northern dialect of Huishui Miao is spoken in the following townships by a total of approximately 50,000 speakers.[4]
- Guiyang City: Gaopo 高坡
- Huishui County: Yangchang 羊场
- Guiding County: Tangbao 塘堡, Pingfa 平伐, etc.
References
edit- ^ Central at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Eastern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southwestern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Li, Yunbing 李云兵 (2018). Miao Yao yu bijiao yanjiu 苗瑶语比较研究 (A comparative study of Hmong-Mien languages). Beijing: The Commercial Press. ISBN 9787100165068. OCLC 1112270585.
- ^ Wang Fushi 王辅世. 1985. Miaoyu jianzhi 苗语简志. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe 民族出版社.
- ^ Sun, Hongkai 孙宏开; Ting, Pang-hsin 丁邦新, eds. (2017). Hanzangyu yuyin he cihui 汉藏语语音和词汇. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe 民族出版社. p. 40. ISBN 9787105142385.