Miao

Name: Miao: census figures, languages and lineage
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Мяо · Q209959

language area per Glottologcensus counts

11,067,929

China, census 2020 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Hmong-Mien

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in China: 11,067,929 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao. Glottolog classifies it in the Hmong-Mien family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

China2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Miao» · [1]

11,067,929

Languages and their lineage

Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao

Hmong-Mienhmon1336
Hmongichmon1337
Nuclear Hmongic-Ho Nenucl1714
Nuclear Hmongicnucl1720
West Hmongicwest2803
Greater Chuanqiandiangrea1295
Chuanqiandianchua1248
First Vernacular Hmongfirs1234
Far Western Miaohuam1250
Chuanqiandian Cluster Miaochua1256

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Yao people She people Pa Then people

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. China, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)