| The Miao nationality in Long Sheng moved from Chengbu Miao Nationality Autonomous County in Hunan, It belongs to Chengbu branch The Miaohua in Longsheng is more antiquited than Hunan Chengbu, the reason is that the Miao nationality in Longsheng lived in big mountain,they seldom get in touching with the external world. After an investigation on Miaohua in Bunong village Weijiang town Longsheng County we depict and analyse the language all round,trying offer evidence for determining the nature of the language.This thesis consists of six parts:It begins with a cultural and geographical introduction to Longsheng and to existing researches of the Miao language there. And on this basis this section will illustrate the purpose and significance of the present study.Chapter I is the phonology of the Miao in Jiang Wei Longsheng. This section will give a comprehensive and systematic phonetic description of Jiang Wei Miao in Longsheng and make a synchronic and diachronic comparison with Beijing phonological system and Chinese mediaeval Sound system respectively. In this chapter the author will analyze and generalize the phonetic features of Jiang Wei Miao. The writer finds that its phonological system shows the complexity in historical levels and the diversity in features. The Miao in Jiangwei not only retains some underlying components of the language of minority groups but also inherits some legacy components from different historical periods and is affected by the surrounding Chinese dialects as well.Chapter II is the vocabulary of Jiang Wei Miao in Longsheng. This part is an overall description of the lexical system of Jiang Wei Miao and the feature analysis based on the description. The present author, in this part, will make a comparison with that of Mandarin Chinese from three perspectives, namely the restrains of word meaning, the motivations of word building and the composition of words. And the author finds that the rational meaning has the following phenomena:different meaning,range of different meanings extending and asymmetry, and that the word building motivations are usually visual forms or metaphor, personification, and vivid description, and that the composition of its vocabulary varies, some from the succession of the underlying words of ethnic minorities and some from ancient Chinese and some dialect-featured words.The third chapter is the grammar. This section will make a brief description of the grammar of Jiang Wei Miao, including some morphological features and syntactic characteristics. The lexical part will introduce some unique affixes and word classes and the syntactic part will instruct some special sentence orders and patterns. In the process of description, the writer will highlight some underlying grammatical phenomena which retain in ethnic minority languages, such as the postposition pronouns for distal terms, the postposition adverb "HEN"(very) and so on.Chapter IV is a phonetic comparison between Weijiang Miao and some neighboring Chinese dialects. This section will mainly compare Weijiang Miao with the neighboring Chinese dialects. The author has selected some representative pots from Xiang Yu (a dialect in southern Hunan), Ping Hua (a dialect in northern Guangxi and southern Guangxi) and Miao to have a horizontal comparison. According to the description and analysis of Weijiang Miao in previous three chapters the author pointed out that Weijiang Miao in Longsheng is a Chinese dialect spoken by minority groups, and that it has largely appeared a Chinese dialect, but it still retains some underlying elements of minority languages in the lower structure. According to Li Lan, this kind of dialect can be called "Min Chinese "(minority-language-featured Chinese dialect). Chapter V is the corpus transcription. This part will offer the pronunciation with IPA for some proverbs and local lyrics selected from the Miao language in Wei Jiang for reference.
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