Huishui Miao language

Huishui Miao, a.k.a. Huishui Hmong, is a Miao language of China. It is named after Huishui County, Guizhou, though not all varieties are spoken there. The endonym is Mhong, though it shares this with Gejia and it is simply a variant spelling of Hmong.
Huishui was given as a subgroup of Western Hmongic in Strecker. Matisoff split it into four separate languages, and, conservatively, did not retain it as a group.

Demographics

Below is a list of Miao dialects and their respective speaker populations and distributions from Li, along with representative datapoints from Wang.

Dialect	Speakers	Counties	Representative datapoint
North	60,000	Guiyang, Longli, Guiding, Huishui	Jiading 甲定寨, Gaopo Township 高坡苗族乡, Guiyang City
Central	40,000+	Huishui, Changshun	Baijin Township 摆金乡, Huishui County
East	10,000+	Huishui, Pingtang	Xiguan Township 西关乡, Pingtang County
West	50,000	Huishui, Changshun	Yarong Township 鸭绒乡, Huishui County

According to Sun, the northern dialect of Huishui Miao is spoken in the following townships by a total of approximately 50,000 speakers.