Maojia (猫家 '
[Chen, Qiguang ��其光(2013). ''Miao and Yao language'' ��瑶语文 Beijing: China Minzu University Press.]) is a
mixed language in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified
Sinitic language that has undergone influence from
Hmongic languages.
Demographics
Maojiahua is spoken by about 200,000 people of Au-Ka (Aoka 奥卡)
Miao ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they Collective consciousness, collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, ...
in
Chengbu,
Suining,
Wugang and
Suining in southwest part of
Hunan Province, as well as in
Ziyuan and
Longsheng in the northern part of
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
Province.
According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32),
"Maojia" ('), also known as "Qingyi Miao 青衣苗", is spoken mostly in
Chengbu County,
Hunan
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, and 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. Li (2004) covers various dialects of Qingyi Miao in detail.
Vocabulary
Below are selected words of likely non-Chinese origin from the Qingyi Miao dialect of Wutuan Town 五团镇,
Chengbu County 城步县, Hunan (Li 2004).
References
*Li, Lan 李藍. 2004. ''Hunan Chengbu Qingyi Miaoren hua'' 湖南城步青衣苗人话 (The language of the Qingyi Miao people). Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中国社会科学出版社.
*''Ming studies'', 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1995
{{Languages of China
Chinese-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of Hunan
Languages of Guangxi
Mixed languages
Hmongic languages