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Gha-Mu people

Ethnic group in China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1521307 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gha-Mu, also known as Small Flowery Miao (Chinese: 小花苗; pinyin: xiǎo huā miáo) and Blue Hmong, are a Miao ethnic group in China. They are from Guizhou and belong to the Hmong people. Many of them are Christians. The number of persons within this group likely exceeds 100,000. They are speakers of the Gha-Mu language.

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The public source identifies “Gha-Mu people” as ethnic group in China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gha-Mu, people and Ethnic.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gha-Mu, people and Ethnic providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1521307. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gha-Mu people” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.