Social:Small Flowery Miao

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Short description: Miao language of Guizhou, China
Small Flowery Miao
Gha-Mu
Native toChina
RegionGuizhou
EthnicityGha-Mu
Native speakers
(84,000 cited 1995)[1]
Hmong–Mien
  • Hmongic
    • Western Hmongic
      • Chuanqiandian cluster
        • Small Flowery Miao
Language codes
ISO 639-3sfm
Glottologsmal1236[2]

Small Flowery Miao (Chinese: 小花苗; pinyin: xiǎo huā miáo) is a Miao language of China spoken by the Gha-Mu people. It is closely related to the Hmong dialects of China and Laos. Hmong and Small Flowery Miao are listed as the first and second local dialects of the Chuanqiandian cluster of West Hmongic languages.[3] It is spoken in Nayong, Shuicheng, Zhenning, Guanling, and Hezhang counties of western Guizhou, China.[4]

References

  1. Small Flowery Miao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Gha-mu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/smal1236. 
  3. Wang, Fushi 王辅世 (1983). "Miáo yǔ fāngyán huàfēn wèntí" (in zh). Mínzú Yǔwén 1983 (5): 1–22. 
  4. "Gha-Mu" (in en). http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/uploads/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/G/Gha-Mu.pdf.