Small Flowery Miao

Small Flowery Miao (Chinese: 小花苗 xiǎo huā miáo) is a Miao language of China that is closely related to Hmong: 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]

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]

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.
  3. Wang Fushi (1983). "Miáoyǔ fāngyán huàfēn wèntí (On the Dialect Divisions of the Miao Language)". Mínzú Yǔwén 5:1–22.
  4. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/G/Gha-Mu.pdf


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