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The Xong language (dut Xongb spoken by Qo Xiong people) also known as Xiangxi Miao (湘西 Western Hunan Miao) Eastern Miao Meo Red Miao and North Hmongic is a dialect cluster of Hmongic languages of China. Xong was given as a branch of Hmongic in Strecker (1987). Matisoff (2001) split it into two languages reflected in Ethnologue but Matisoff (2006) lists only one.The best studied dialect is that of Layiping 腊乙坪 Jiwei Township 吉卫镇 Huayuan County Hunan Province China (see Xiang 1999).