[2] Matisoff (2001) separated the three varieties as distinct Miao languages, not forming a group.
Wang (1994) adds another two minor, previously unclassified varieties.
[3] Mo Piu, spoken in northern Vietnam, may be a divergent variety of Guiyang Miao.
[4] Representative dialects of Guiyang Miao include:[5] Below is a list of Miao dialects and their respective speaker populations and distributions from Li (2018),[6] along with representative datapoints from Wang (1985).
[7] According to Sun (2017), the northern dialect of Guiyang Miao is spoken in the following locations by a total of approximately 60,000 speakers.