Miao, Large Flowery

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A language of China

ISO 639-3
hmd
Alternate Names
A-Hmao, Big Flowery Miao, Da Hua Bei Miao, Da Hua Miao, Diandongbei Miao, Flowery Miao, Great Flowery Tribe, Hua Miao, Hwa Miao, Northeastern Dian Miao, Northeastern Yunnan Miao, Ta Hwa Miao
Population

300,000 (Wang Fushi and Mao Zhongwu 1995).

Location

Northwest Guizhou Province, Weining, Hezhang, Shuicheng, Pu’an, Zhenning, and Ziyun counties, Liupanshui municipality; northeast and central Yunnan Province, Zhaotong area, Yongshan, Yiliang, Daguan, Suijiang, Qiaojia, Xundian, Fumin, Luquan, Lufeng, and Wuding counties, Xuanwei, Qujing, Kunming, Anning, and Chuxiong municipalities; south Sichuan Province, Panzhihua municipality.

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Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification
Hmong-Mien, Hmongic, Chuanqiandian
Dialects

Inherently unintelligible of other Miao varieties.

Typology

Tonal, 5–7 tones

Language Use

Vigorous. Home, community, market.

Language Development
High level of literacy among the older generation in original Pollard script. Dictionary. Bible: 2009.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Miao, Large Flowery
Writing
Latin script. Miao (Pollard) script. Pahawh Hmong script.
Other Comments

Officially classified within Miao nationality. Traditional religion, Christian.