Hm Nai (Mandarin: Wunai (唔奈 ''Wúnài''), Cantonese: Ng-nai) is a Hmong-Mien language (Chinese: ''Miao-Yao'' 苗瑶) spoken in western
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...
province,
China. There are approximately 5800 people speaking this language, and the number is decreasing.
Mao & Li (1997) determined it to be closely related to the
Pa-Hng language
Pa-Hng (also spelled Pa-Hung; ''Bāhēng yǔ'') is a divergent Hmongic (Miao) language spoken in Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hunan in southern China as well as northern Vietnam.
Classification
Pa-Hng has long been recognized as divergent. Benedict ...
.
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Hmongic languages
Languages of China
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