Maojia dialect

Maojia
Native to China
Region Hunan, Guangxi
Ethnicity Miao
Native speakers
 (200,000 cited 1991)[1]
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˥), also known as "Qingyi Miao 青衣苗", is spoken mostly in Chengbu County, Hunan, 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).

English glossChinese glossQingyi Miao
eat吃y²¹
oil油lu⁵²
meat肉nai⁴⁴
pig猪te⁵⁵
small小nɑ⁵⁵
child孩子nɑŋ⁵⁵li³²
nose鼻子pi⁵²haŋ²¹³
spider蜘蛛kiou⁵⁵ɕi⁵⁵
stinkbug臭虫pie⁵⁵
star星星se⁵⁵le³²
dust灰尘tʰoŋ⁵⁵din⁴⁴
this这ko²¹
that那mi⁴⁴
one一ɑ⁴⁴
thick (of soup)稠no⁵²
secret密nin²¹³
earthworm蚯蚓din²¹kai³²
sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca)丝瓜se³²tai⁵⁵kuɑ⁵⁵
infant婴幼儿naŋ⁵⁵le³²
outsider外地人lai⁵²tɕie²¹³ŋ⁴⁴
son儿子naŋ⁵⁵li³², naŋ⁵⁵tsai³²
spit吐ia⁵²
vagina女阴tsɿ⁵⁵
do做niɑŋ⁵²
excrement屎kai²¹³
kneel蹲nioŋ⁵⁵
bend in凹mie²¹
thin廋tse⁵⁵

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2013). Miao and Yao language [苗瑶语文]. Beijing: China Minzu University Press.
  2. ↑ http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Aoka.pdf
  • Li Lan 李藍. 2004. Hunan Chengbu Qingyi Miaoren hua 湖南城步靑衣苗人话. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中國社会科学出版社.
  • Ming studies, 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1995


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