Xixiu Miao language
| Xixiu Miao | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Guizhou |
Native speakers | (300 cited 1995)[1] |
Hmong–Mien
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Xixiu Miao (Chinese: 西秀; pronounced approx. "she-show")[2] is a small Miao language of China that is closely related to Hmong: Hmong, Small Flowery Miao, and Xixiu are listed as the three local dialects of the Chuanqiandian Cluster of the West Hmongic languages.[3] There are only 300 speakers, in the Xixiu District of Anshun Prefecture, Guizhou Province.[1]
References
- ^ a b Wang and Mao (1995). At the time, 城郊和安顺县旧州一带.
- ^ There is no established name in English. "Xixiu" is simply a representative place where it is spoken. In Chinese, it is called 川黔滇方言川黔滇次方言第三土语 "the third local dialect of the Chuanqiandian subdialect of the Chuanqiandian dialect [of Miao]", but it is not the only variety of Miao to have gone by that description.
- ^ Wang Fushi (1983). "Miáoyǔ fāngyán huàfēn wèntí (On the Dialect Divisions of the Miao Language)". Mínzú Yǔwén 5:1–22.