Mo Piu (Mơ Piu) is an unclassified
Hmongic language spoken in the village of Nậm Tu Thượng, Nậm Xé Township, western
Văn Bàn District,
Lào Cai Province. It was first documented in 2009 by a team of French linguists as part of the
MICA Institute
MICA: Multimedia, Information, Communication & Applications is an international research institute affiliated to the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam.
Aims
Its purpose is to contribute to the development of information techn ...
's "Au Co" Project.
Geneviève Caelen-Haumont reported 237 speakers as of 2011. She notes that Mo Piu is highly divergent from neighbouring Hmongic languages in Vietnam.
Ly Van Tu & Vittrant (2014) tentatively classify Mo Piu as a
Guiyang Miao
Guiyang Miao, also known as Guiyang Hmong, is a Miao language of China. It is named after Guiyang County, Guizhou, though not all varieties are spoken there. The endonym is ''Hmong'', a name it shares with the Hmong language.
Classification
Gui ...
dialect.
References
Further reading
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External links
Mơ Piu darta of Geneviève Caelen-Haumont and Jean-Pierre Salmon on the Speech & Language Data Repository (SLDR) website* http://crdo.up.univ-aix.fr/crdoRAID/preview/000013/Rapport.pdf
Hmongic languages
Languages of Vietnam
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