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The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) [1] are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces; the speakers of these languages are predominantly "hill people", in contrast to the ...
Miao. Flowery Miao (花苗) White Miao (白苗) Black Miao (黑苗) Chinese Miao (汉苗) Yao. Red-headed Yao (红头瑶) Landian Yao (蓝靛瑶) Sha Yao (沙瑶) Dai. Water Dai (水傣) Black Dai (黑傣) Pu'er Dai (普洱傣) Hani. Nongmen (弄们) (Nuomei/ 糯美 [15]): widely distributed across Jinping County. 10,323 households and 42,325 ...
Miao folkdance – Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.
There is a separate written standard for Bunu, since it is from the Hmong/Miao side, rather than the Mien/Yao side, of the Miao–Yao language family. Some people think that a variety of Yao is, or was, written in Nüshu, an indigenous script in Southern part of Hunan Province in China. But this connection between Yao language and Nüshu is ...
Baishi Miao 白市苗 of Baishi District, Tianzhu County, eastern Guizhou, possibly a mixed Chinese and Miao language [23] In southwestern Hunan, divergent Sinitic language varieties spoken by Miao and Yao peoples include: [24] Guanxia Pinghua 关峡平话, spoken by ethnic Miao in Suining County, Hunan.
The Mienic or Yao languages are spoken by the Yao people of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.. Some of the Yao peoples speak Hmongic languages (Miao); these are called Bunu.A small population of Yao people in Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County (金秀瑶族自治县) in eastern Guangxi speak a Tai-Kadai language called Lakkia.
The Miao and Yao rebelled in 1464, and the revolt spread throughout Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Guangdong. [8] The Miao regrouped and had settled throughout southern China. On the Hunan Guizhou border, more rebellions broke out in 1466. The Ming rallied 1,000 Mongol cavalry archers and 30,000 soldiers in total to defeat the Miao. [9]
Proto-Hmong–Mien (PHM), also known as Proto-Miao–Yao (PMY; Chinese: 原始苗瑶语), is the reconstructed ancestor of the Hmong–Mien languages. Lower-level reconstructions include Proto-Hmongic and Proto-Mienic .