Miao, Small Flowery

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Atse, Gha-Mu, Ghab-Mvb Ghab-Svd, Ghuab-Hmongb Ghuab-Soud, Hsiao Hwa Miao, Xiao Hua Miao

84,000 (Wang and Mao 1995).

Guizhou province: Guanling, Hezhang, Nayong, Shuicheng, and Zhenning counties.

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6a (Vigorous). Language of recognized nationality: Miao.

None known. Inherently unintelligible of other Miao varieties (Hattaway 2003). A member of macrolanguage Hmong [hmn].

Vigorous. Home, community, market. Used by all. Also use Mandarin Chinese [cmn].

Miao (Pollard) script [Plrd], no longer in use.

Traditional religion, Christian.