Editing Hmu language (section)

{{Short description|Hmongic language spoken in China}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Hmu
| altname          = Qiandong Miao, Black Miao
| nativename       = {{lang|mul|hveb Hmub}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|[m̥ʰū]}}
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]]
| states           = [[China]]
| region           = mostly [[Guizhou]]
| ethnicity        = mostly [[Miao people|Miao]], some [[Yao people|Yao]]
| speakers         = 2.1 million
| date             = 1995
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = Hmong-Mien
| fam2             = [[Hmongic languages|Hmongic]]
| fam3             = Core Hmongic
| stand1           = Standard Miao
| lc2              = hmq
| ld2              = Eastern
| lc1              = hea
| ld1              = Northern
| lc3              = hms
| ld3              = Southern
| lc4              = neo
| ld4              = [[Ná-Meo language|Ná-Meo]]
| glotto           = east2369
| glottorefname    = East Hmongic
}}

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<ref name="Ratliff">{{cite book |last = Ratliff |first = Martha |year = 2010 |title = Hmong–Mien language history |location = [[Canberra]], Australia |publisher = Pacific Linguistics |isbn = 978-0-85883-615-0 |hdl=1885/146760 |hdl-access=free |ref=none }}</ref>), 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.<ref name="Ratliff"/>

Qanu (咯努), a Hmu variety, had 11,450 speakers as of 2000, and is spoken just south of [[Kaili City]], Guizhou.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Qanu |url=http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/uploads/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/Q/Qanu.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820143312/http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/uploads/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/Q/Qanu.pdf |archive-date=2016-08-20 |access-date=2021-08-17 |language=en |via=Asia Harvest}}</ref> The Qanu are ethnoculturally distinct from the other Hmu.