public_comment: "Considered a dialect of Miao by Ethnologue.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:7987,
code_id:4268,
speaker_number: "100000",
speaker_number_text: "250,000",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "252,000",
date_of_info: "2000 (Hattaway)",
public_comment: "Considered a Dialect. Speaker total does not reflect the number of speakers of Hmong Shua, but rather the number of 'Sinicized Miao' speakers, a large language that Hmong Shua is considered a dialect of by Ethnologue.",