The Xong language ( Dut Xonb [tu53 ɕõ35] ) is the northernmost Hmongic language , spoken in south-central China by around 0.9 million people. It is called Xiangxi Miaoyu ( 湘西苗语 , "Western Hunan Miao") in Chinese, as well as Eastern Miao ( 东部苗语 ). In Western sources, it has been called Meo , Red Miao , and North Hmongic . An official alphabet was adopted in 1956.
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4-948: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Xong language Xong is spoken mainly in Hunan province, but also in a few areas of Guizhou and Hubei provinces, Guangxi , and Chongqing municipality in China. Xong-speaking communities, by county, are: Xong was classified in its own branch of the Hmongic family in Strecker (1987). Xiang (1999) divided Xong into western and eastern dialects. Matisoff (2001) considered these to be two distinct languages, but Matisoff (2006) consolidated them into one. Yang (2004) divides each of these dialects into three subdialects, as listed below. Speaker populations and locations are from Li and Li (2012). He Fuling (2009) describes
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