Pingtang Miao

Pingtang Miao
Native to China
Region Guizhou
Native speakers
 24,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Linguist list
 ping Pingtang
  dush Dushan
  lupi Luodian–Pingyan
  wanl Wangmo–Luodian
Glottolog None

Pingtang Miao, named after Pingtang County (平塘 píngtáng) in which it is spoken, is a group of Miao languages of China.

Classification

The four varieties of Pingtang were listed as unclassified branches of Chuanqiandian Miao (Western Hmongic) in Wang (1983).[2] Li (2000) classified them together as one of eight branches of Western Hmongic,[3] a position maintained in Wu and Yang (2010).[4]

Varieties

There are four varieties of Pingtang according to Li (2000):

These are at approximately the distance of the varieties of the other branches of West Hmongic, which Ethnologue assigned separate ISO codes.

References

  1. ↑ 王辅世、毛宗武，《苗瑶语古音构拟》，中国社会科学出版社，1995年。
  2. ↑ Wang Fushi (1983). "Miáoyǔ fāngyán huàfēn wèntí (On the Dialect Divisions of the Miao Language)". Mínzú Yǔwén 5:1–22.
  3. ↑ 李云兵，《苗语方言划分遗留问题研究》，中央民族大学出版社，2000年。
  4. ↑ Wú Zhèngbiāo and Yáng Guāngyīng, 2010. 兼谈苗族英雄史诗《亚鲁王》的记译整理问题, 民族翻译.


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