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The Hmong-Mien or Miao-Yao languages are a small language family of southern China and Southeast Asia. They are spoken in mountainous areas of southern China, including Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and Hubei provinces, where they have been relegated to being 'hill people', while the Han Chinese have settled the more fertile river valleys. Within the last 300–400 years, Hmong and some Mien people migrated to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar. As a result of the Indochina Wars, many Hmong speakers left Southeast Asia for Australia, the United States, and other countries.