Hmu language

Hmu
Hmu
Qiandong Miao
Black Miao, hveb Hmub
Pronunciation	[m̥ʰū]
Native to	China
Region	mostly Guizhou
Ethnicity	mostly Miao, some Yao
Native speakers	(2.1 million cited 1995)
Language family	Hmong–Mien Hmongic Core Hmongic Hmu; ; ;
Standard forms	Standard Miao;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; hea – Northern; hmq – Eastern; hms – Southern; neo – Ná-Meo
Glottolog	east2369

The Hmu language (hveb Hmub), also known as Qiandong Miao (黔东, Eastern Guizhou Miao), Central Miao (中部苗语), East Hmongic (Ratliff 2010), or (somewhat ambiguously) Black Miao, is a dialect cluster of Hmongic languages of China. The best studied dialect is that of Yǎnghāo (养蒿) village, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province.

Qanu (咯努), a Hmu variety, had 11,450 speakers as of 2000, and is spoken just south of Kaili City, Guizhou. The Qanu are ethnoculturally distinct from the other Hmu.

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