Na Meo audio word list

<p>Na Meo of Tuyen Quang<br> <br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: Khu&acirc;n Hẻ, Kim Quan commune, Tuy&ecirc;n Quang province, Việt Nam<br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80 households in the village, all Na Meo<br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Autonym: na⁵⁵mjau&sup3;⁵ɬa⁵&sup3; = na⁵⁵ &lsquo;human being&rsquo;; mjau &lsquo;Miao&rsquo;; ɬa⁵&sup3; &lsquo;black&rsquo;<br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Informant: Sầm Thị Niềm (female; born 1972)<br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Date of data collection: January 28, 2014<br> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WAV audio recordings made of approximately 300 lexical items<br> <br> Kim Quan commune is highly ethnically diverse and has Flowery Hmong, White Hmong, Nung, Dao, and Black Hmong (&ldquo;Na Meo&rdquo;) residents. Flowery Hmong and White are mutually intelligible dialects belonging to the Chuanqiandian subgroup of West Hmongic, while N&ugrave;ng (also called &ldquo;T&agrave;y N&ugrave;ng&rdquo;) is Central Tai, corresponding to &ldquo;Zhuang&rdquo; in southern Guangxi and southern Yunnan.&nbsp; The local Dao (Yao), also known as the &ldquo;Dao K&oacute;c M&ugrave;n&rdquo;, speak a Mienic language.<br> <br> The Na Meo are known locally by other ethnic groups as the &ldquo;M&ocirc;ng Đen&rdquo;, or &ldquo;Black Hmong&rdquo;. In Tuy&ecirc;n Quang province, it is spoken only in the single village of Khu&acirc;n Hẻ, Kim Quan commune, Y&ecirc;n Sơn district, which is nearly 50 kilometers to the east of Tuy&ecirc;n Quang city.<br> <br> My informant Sầm Thị Niềm, a 41-year-old woman born in Khu&acirc;n Hẻ, was multilingual in Na Meo, &ldquo;T&agrave;y N&ugrave;ng&rdquo; (Central Tai), and Vietnamese.<br> <br> The locals are aware of the existence of other Na Meo speakers in Cao Minh commune, Lang Son province, and report that Na Meo of Cao Minh is mutually intelligible with Na Meo of Khu&acirc;n Hẻ.</p>