Miaoadj.n.

1834 C. Gützlaff Sketch of Chinese Hist. I. i. 30 In the mountains of Kwang-tung and Kwang-se live great numbers of the Meaou and Yaou tribes, who appear to be the aborigines of the country.

1917 S. Couling Encycl. Sinica 4/2 The Miao women wear wonderfully embroidered clothes and short, white kilted skirts.

1963 Times 24 Apr. 10/3 According to Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Pathet Lao has also demanded the withdrawal of trained Meo tribesmen.

1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 295/1 Twice the entire font of Miao-script type was destroyed.., and twice it was remade.

1977 Yin Ming United & Equal 3 In the 1930s the reactionary massacres of the Hui people in Kansu and the Miao and Yao peoples in Kwangsi.

1990 M. Booth Triads vii. 109 This area has an indigenous population of around half a million, made up of the Meo, Yao, Lisu, Akha, and Lahu tribes.

1882 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 4 719 Except in the cities the mass of the people is made up of a number of aboriginal tribes, such as the Lolo, Pai, and Miao.

1901 E. H. Parker China i. 7 In the southern portion of the eastern half there are still a few independent..tribes, known as Yao or Miao.

1955 Times 9 May 8/4 The Meos, or Miaos as they are more commonly known in China, are more recent emigrants from Kweichow and Yunnan provinces.

1963 Times 24 Apr. 10/3 It is not clear whether the rightist troops mentioned are Meo, or, for that matter, whether the latter have descended from their hills.

1972 Times 4 July 16/1 Some of the Meo have succeeded in preserving themselves and their cultural identity by not taking sides in the war.

1990 M. Booth Triads vii. 109 The Meo and Yao are of Chinese ancestry.

1905 S. Pollard Diary 5 Nov. in R. E. Kendall Eyes of Earth (1954) xi. 97 One by one I asked the elders two questions in Miao.

1921 Gospel in Many Tongues (Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc.) 79 (heading) Miao: Hwa dial.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 390 Miao, Yao, Khāmtī, the extinct Āhom, etc.

1948 R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. i. 33 Miao..has indeed close relationship with Chinese; but it is a relationship of influence and not of kinship.

1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 294/1 Although Miao and Meo are related to Yao, the precise linguistic affiliations of these tongues have not been fully determined.

1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 295/1 He, or Black, Miao is spoken in the upper Tsing Shui Ho River area.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 417/2 Miao was not a written language until Christian missionaries devised a Latin orthography at the beginning of the 20th century.