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	Hmong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔南 : Qiánnán), Guizhou
		Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西 : Xiāngxī), Hunan
		Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山 : Wénshān), Yunnan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miao (3759 words)

	Xinhua - English
		In Qiandongnan's Taijiang County, where the Miao population accounts for 97 percent of the total, 40 out of 180 Miao villages no longer use the Miao language.
		The shrinking of the Miao language has aroused the concern of folk experts.
		The Miao ethnic group, with a population of nearly 9 million, scatters in Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong and Hainan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2006-07/27/content_4883808.htm (314 words)

	Hmong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔南 : Qiánnán), Guizhou
		Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西 : Xiāngxī), Hunan
		Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山 : Wénshān), Yunnan
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hmong (2364 words)

	The Miao Ethnic Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Miao feudal-lord economy reached its peak and began to decline during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
		During the early years of the Qing Dynasty, these measures were applied to many Miao areas, contributing a great deal to the disintegration of the feudal-lord system and the growth of a landlord economy.
		In some Miao areas, before autonomous authorities were established, priority was given to such things as the election of delegates to the People's congress and the training and appointment of minority administrative staff.
	www.china.org.cn /english/features/EthnicGroups/136935.htm (2098 words)

	Ethnic Groups - china.org.cn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They were referred to as the Miaos in Chinese documents of the Tang and Song period (A.D. In the third century A.D., the ancestors of the Miaos went west to present-day northwest Guizhou and south Sichuan along the Wujiang River.
		In some areas, a son's name is followed by his father's, but generally a Miao person uses only his or her own name.
		Early Miao society went through a long primitive stage in which there were neither classes nor exploitation.
	www.china.org.cn /e-groups/shaoshu/shao-2-miao.htm (2285 words)

	Common Basis and Characteristics of Miao and Hmong Identity
		The Miao (Hmong) Diaspora is certainly one of the most ancient Diaspora in the History of Migration; but some four thousand years of wandering did not diminish their identity: members still acknowledge their ethnicity and seek to preserve their cultural heritage.
		The music of the Miao in the Northwest of Quian talks about the history of Miao in three major parts: The first period was the peaceful period; the second was the period of war; and the third reflects the period of decline.
		The Miao are known for their batik, their embroidery and their silverware as well as for the artistic quality and for the process of making which may reach world’s best standards.
	www.geocities.com /kaoly_y/HistoireCultureLanguage/ZhangXiaoEnglish112603.html (7012 words)

	The Miao ethnic minority
		Because timber resources are plentiful in most Miao areas, houses are usually built of wood, and roofed with fir bark or tiles or are thatched.
		The Miaos used to believe in many gods, and some of their superstitious rituals were very expensive.
		Miao areas differ in their scale of economic and educational development.
	www.toptrip.cc /destination/minority/miao.htm (2148 words)

	Hmong Translation Services
		This language, which consists of 30-40 mutually unintelligible dialects, belongs, together with the Bunu language, to the Miao branch of the Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) language family.
		Though many of the speakers of those languages (and of Chinese) undoubtedly consider the Miao to be barbarians, this by no means proves that the word itself has that denotation.
		Some consider that it is best to use Miao as a general term, especially as this is in accord with tradition and is also practical for making the situation clear to persons not specializing in the study of Miao.
	www.verbatimsolutions.com /languages/hmong.php (2009 words)

	Miao
		Miao is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Miao-Yao family.
		Miao myths describe the creation of the world, the birth of the Miao people, and their battles and migrations.
		Miao boys and girls may date from the age of thirteen or fourteen.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Miao.html (1417 words)

	Miao minorities of China
		Traditionally the Miao live in mountainous regions and build simple, single-story houses out of wood or thatch with forestry and agriculture their main source of income though in the past they were prime producers of opium.
		The Miao ethnicity is actually a branch of the Hmong tribes of Southeast Asia which is comprised of seventy or more sub groups, distinguished by fine variations in dialect, dress, and custom.
		Miao festivals follow the lunar calendar (as do all minorities in China) and therefore vary from year to year in the Roman calendar.
	www.trax2.com /info/factsheets/miao-factsheet.html (414 words)

	The Miao Minority
		Pushed southward by the rising tide of the Han, Miao clans became scattered and isolated from one another among the Miaolong and Wuling Mountains.
		Because of the lack of a written language, oral history and tradition was passed on by songs and dances.
		The friendly Miao are well known for their hospitality.
	www.c-c-c.org /chineseculture/minority/miao.html (255 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Miao groups distinguish themselves both by language variations and by the style of their clothing.
		Though the earliest mention of the Miao in Chinese records dates to the 12th century BCE., according to tradition the Miao lived along in the valleys of the Yellow River and the Yangzi River as far back as 5,000 years ago.
		Miao make recourse to shamans, who can make contact with the spirits, in order to find out what spirit is causing the illness and how to stop it from doing so.
	www.usd.edu /~jsebesta/culture.html (678 words)

	People in Guizhou - Miao Ethnic Minorities
		The ancestry of the Miao people can trace back to the tribe of the mythological warriors engaged in fighting with the Yellow Emperor in the central plains region in the times of the primitive society.
		The Miao people have their own language, belonging to the Miao language of the Miao-Yao branch of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family.
		To hike through and explore Miao villages, to watch the techniques of making embroidery, silver ornaments, to experience a Miao Festival, to stay overnight at a Miao family's wooden house on stilts, to talk with villager, will definitely be an unforgettable experience in your life.
	www.sinowaytravel.com /guiyang/culture_miao_ethnic.htm (521 words)

	Lao language -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mon-Khmer language spoken by most of the population of Cambodia, where it is the official language, and by some 1.3 million people in southeastern Thailand, and also by more than a million people in southern Vietnam.
		language spoken in the northern and eastern states of Myanmar (Burma) and belonging to the Southwestern group of the Tai language family of Southeast Asia.
		The closest relatives of the Tai languages are the Kam-Sui languages, spoken in Kweichow, China; and the languages Be (Hainan Island) and Lakkia (Kwangsi, China).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9047151 (953 words)

	Miao-Yao languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, the Miao language is known as Meo.
		In Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, the Miao language is known as...
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052439 (777 words)

	The Miao shaman's ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Miao are one of the 55 minorities in China and are mainly concentrated in Southwest China.
		The Miao in the region where I have lived are sometimes known as the Long Skirt Miao by the length of a woman’s skirt or as Black Miao due to the colour of a woman’s costume.
		The Miao here are animist and shamanist, so the shaman is respected by every one and is engaged in hosting or participating in any important ceremonies in the community.
	www.tribaltextiles.info /articles/Miao_shaman.htm (2204 words)

	Hmong National Development, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hmong is a tonal language: The meaning of a word can be completely altered by pronouncing it in a different tone.
		Linguists suspect the tonal aspect was not orignally a part of Hmong language, but grew out of contact with the different Chinese languages through the centuries.
		Miao is related at its upper levels to the Yao dialects, from which a proto-Miao-Yao can be reconstructed.
	www.hndlink.org /language.htm (911 words)

	Travel Yunnan China:Minority:Miao Ethnic Group
		They mostly inhabit in the mountain areas, work as the farmers,speak Miao language which is the Miao branch of the family of Myanmar and Tibetan language.
		Miao women are good at the spinning, embroidery and wax dyeing.
		Their family is consisted of a husband and a wife and the children, the aged male people would be the head of the family.
	www.travelchinayunnan.com /minorities/miao.htm (238 words)

	People's Daily Online The Miao ethnic minority
		They are mainly distributed across Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Sichuan provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and a small number live on Hainan Island in Guangdong Province and in southwest Hubei Province.
		The Miao language belongs to the Miao-Yao branch of the Chinese-Tibetan language family.
		The construction of railways between Guiyang and Kunming, and between Hunan and Guizhou has boosted the development of the Miao areas along the routes.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /data/minorities/Miao.html (2332 words)

	miao people in guizhou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They were referred to as the Miaos in Chinese documents of the Tang and Song period (A.D. In the third century A.D., the ancestors of the Miaos went west to present-day northwest Guizhou and south Sichuan along the Wujiang River.
		In the Zhaotong area in Yunnan and on Hainan Island, most Miaos live in thatched huts or "branch houses," made of woven branches and twigs or bamboo strips plastered with mud.
		In 1502, the Ming Court began to abolish the rule of Miao feudal lords, and appointed officials who were subject to recall.
	www.4panda.com /guizhou/miao.htm (2300 words)

	Language School Explorer - Information about Chinese_character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Use of Chinese characters has disappeared from the Vietnamese language â” in which they were used until the 20th century â” and from North Korea, where in normal writing they have been completely replaced by Hangul.
		There have been suggestions that this was not designed for the Chinese language, or even for a Sino-Tibetan language, because it does not seem to reflect Chinese morphology accurately.
		Although now nearly extinct in Vietnamese, varying scripts of Chinese characters were used to write the language, with use of Chinese characters becoming limited to ceremonial uses beginning in the 19th century.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Chinese_character (3961 words)

	Info on King Chi You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Whenever the sound is mentioned, the Miao people only know for thousands of years that one of their ancient heroes and ancestors was name You.
		To the southeast of Leigong Mount, the highest peak in Miao Mountains in Guizhou Province is a brook winding down the Mount, a waterfall, and a canyon/valley with terraced fields on the both sides, and small patches of earth used for rice fields.
		Chi You’s mythology in the Miao folk spoken/oral literature described the worship of oxen like this: Chi You, head of the ancient Miao race, was defeated by Huang Di and then died.
	www.hmongcenter.org /infoonkingchi.html (5418 words)

	Hmong Translation - Translate Hmong Language Translator
		The Miao themselves use various self-designations and the Chinese traditionally classified them according to the most characteristic colour of the women's clothes.
		Some consider that it is best to use Miao as a general term, especially as this is in accord with tradition and is also practical for making the situation clear to persons not specialising in the study of Miao.
		Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西 : Xiāngxī), Hunan
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/hmong.shtml (2365 words)

	Pollard Miao alphabet
		Pollard Miao underwent many changes and revisions and didn't become stable until 1936, when a translation of the New Testament was published in Pollard Miao writing.
		Various efforts have been made to improve Pollard Miao writing, which inadequately represents the phonetics and tones of A-Hmao and is not ideal for writing Chinese loan words.
		A-Hmao or Hwa Miao, a dialect of Miao spoken in Yúnnán province in the southwest of China.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/pollardmiao.htm (337 words)

	The Miao Unreached People Group
		Our primary purpose is to educate the body of Christ throughout the world about the Miao/Hmong and mobilize them to pray for the salvation of this unreached people group of 9 million, most of whom live in China.
		Miao or Hmong?: Both terms are used for this people group, though many Hmong from SE Asia see the title "Miao" as derogatory".
		The self-designation for most Miao in China can be traced to the name "Hmong", so learn why we use the term Miao and not Hmong to refer to them.
	www.miaoupg.com (477 words)

	The World of Hainan: Directory of Ethnic Cultures and Languages
		Ethnologue Report for Jiamao The language of the Li people of Lingshui and Baoding area, which is very different from other Hlai dialects.
		Although these people are known as the Hainan Miao and identify themselves as Miao, the language they speak is, according to this entry, the language of the Yao or Mien minority on Mainland China.
		Miao and Mien are linguistically related, belonging to the Miao-Mien language family.
	www.hainan-world.com /dir/hainanethnic.html (1934 words)

	STEDT Bibliography
		Tokyo: Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
		Languages of the ethnic corridor in Western Sichuan.
		Wheatley, J. The decline of verb-final syntax in the Yi (Lolo) languages of southwestern China.
	stedt.berkeley.edu /html/bibliography.html (2028 words)

	HmongChina
		The Western Protestant Missionaries and the Miao in Yunnan and Guizhou, Southwest China.
		Hudspeth, William H. The Cult of the Door amongst the Miao in South-West China.
		Crawford, T.P. The Miao - Tsz or Aborigines of China.
	www.hmongstudies.com /HmongChina.html (2070 words)

	Hmong - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Hmong, also known as Miao (Chinese: 苗: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mèo or Hmông; Thai: แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong)), are an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China (especially Guizhou) that cross into northern Southeast Asia (northern Vietnam and Laos).
		The battle, believed to be taken place in the 26th century B.C, was fought under heavy fog as Huaxia was able to match against Miao with the compass.
		There are also 20,000,000 Miao, especially in Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and on other continents.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Miao (3445 words)

	Miao Minority - Chinese Nationalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Miao are one of the most ancient of China's nationalities, tracing their origins back more than 4,000 years.
		The Miao language has three main dialects, but there was no unified written script until 1956.
		The Miao are found in the Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Hunan, Guangdong, and Yunnan Provinces and the Guangxi Autonomous Region.
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Minorities/min-Miao.html (311 words)

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