Huishui Miao, a.k.a. Huishui Hmong, is a
Miao language of China. It is named after
Huishui County
Huishui () is a county of south-central Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. 61% of its 476,900 population are minorities, including Bouyei, Miao, Hui, Zhuang, Sui, Bai, a ...
, Guizhou, though not all varieties are spoken there. The endonym is ''Mhong'', though it shares this with
Gejia and it is simply a variant spelling of
Hmong
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related to ...
.
Raojia is closely related.
Huishui was given as a subgroup of
Western Hmongic
The West Hmongic languages, also known as Chuanqiandian Miao (川黔滇苗: Sichuan–Guizhou–Yunnan Miao) and Western Miao, is the major branch of the Hmongic languages of China and Southeast Asia.
The name ''Chuanqiandian'' is used both for ...
in Strecker (1987). Matisoff (2001) split it into four separate languages, and, conservatively, did not retain it as a group.
References
West Hmongic languages
Languages of China
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