Maojia dialect
| Maojia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | China |
| Region | Hunan, Guangxi |
| Ethnicity | Miao |
Native speakers | unknown (200,000 cited 1991) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Maojia (猫家 mau˥ka˥[1]) is a mixed language in Southern China. Some scholars think Maojiahua is a Hmongic dialect of Hmong-Mien languages, although it absorbs a lot of Chinese words. Others treat Maojiahua as Chinese dialect which mixes with Hmong-Mien languages.
Maojiahua is spoken by about 200,000 people of Au-Ka (Aoka 奥卡) Miao ethnicity in Chengbu, Suining, Wugang and Suining in southwest part of Hunan Province, as well as in Ziyuan and Longsheng in north part of Guangxi Province.[2]
According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32),[1] "Maojia" (mau˥ka˥) is also commonly known as "Green-clothed Miao people 青衣苗", and their language is spoken mostly in Chengbu County, but also in Suining, Wugang, Longsheng, and Ziyuan counties. There is a total of about 120,000 speakers. The representative dialect given in Chen (2013) is that of Xintang Village 信塘村, Yangshi Township 羊石乡, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan Province.
References
- 1 2 Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2013). Miao and Yao language [苗瑶语文]. Beijing: China Minzu University Press.
- ↑ http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Aoka.pdf
- Ming studies, 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1995
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