Huishui Miao language

Huishui Miao
Huishui Miao
Mhong
Native to	China
Region	Guizhou
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Hmong–Mien Hmongic West Hmongic Huishui Miao; ; ;
Dialects	Raojia;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; hmc – Central; hme – Eastern; hmi – Northern; hmh – Southwestern
Glottolog	huis1239

Huishui Miao, AKA 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. Raojia is closely related.

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.

References

^ 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)

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[e18-1] 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)

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