Hmu language

Hmu
Hmu
Qiandong Miao
Black Miao, hveb Hmub
Pronunciation	[m̥ʰū]
Native to	China
Region	mostly Guizhou
Ethnicity	mostly Miao, some Yao
Native speakers	(2.1 million cited 1995)
Language family	Hmong–Mien Hmongic Core Hmongic Hmu; ; ;
Standard forms	Standard Miao;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; hea – Northern; hmq – Eastern; hms – Southern; neo – Ná-Meo
Glottolog	east2369

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.

^ 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)
^ ^a ^b Ratliff, Martha (2010). Hmong–Mien language history. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/146760. ISBN 978-0-85883-615-0.
^ "Qanu" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2021-08-17 – via Asia Harvest.

[e18-1] 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)

[Ratliff-2] 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.

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