Mak language

The Mak language (Chinese: 莫语; autonym: ʼai3 ma꞉k8)[3] is a Kam–Sui language spoken in Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is spoken mainly in the four townships of Yangfeng 羊/阳风乡 (including Dali 大利村 and Xinchang 新场村 dialects[4]), Fangcun 方村, Jialiang 甲良, and Diwo 地莪 in Jialiang District 甲良, Libo County. Mak speakers can also be found in Dushan County. Mak is spoken alongside Ai-Cham and Bouyei.[5] The Mak are officially classified as Bouyei by the Chinese government.

Not to be confused with Mak language (Adamawa).
Mak
ʼai3 ma꞉k8
Native toChina
RegionLibo County, southern Guizhou
Ethnicity10,000 (2000)[1]
Native speakers
5,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mkg
Glottologmakc1235[2]

Yang (2000) considers Ai-Cham and Mak to be different dialects of the same language.

The Fangcun was first studied by Fang-Kuei Li in 1942, and the Yangfeng dialect was studied in the 1980s by Dabai Ni of the Minzu University of China.[5] Ni also noted that the Mak people only sing Bouyei folk songs, and that about 5,000 Mak people have shifted to the Bouyei language.

References
  1. Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mak (China)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. See Proto-Tai_language#Tones for an explanation of the tone codes.
  4. Ni Dabai [倪大白]. 2010. 侗台语概论 [An introduction to Kam-Tai languages], p.249. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. ISBN 978-7-105-10582-3
  5. Dabai, Ni. 1988. "Yangfeng Mak of Libo county." In Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit (eds.), Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai, 87-106. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 86. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Edmondson, J. A., & Solnit, D. B. (1988). Comparative Kadai: linguistic studies beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics, no. 86. [Arlington, Tex.]: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0-88312-066-6.
  • 杨通银 / Yang Tongyin. 莫语研究 / Mo yu yan jiu (A Study of Mak). Beijing: 中央民族大学出版社 / Zhong yang min zu da xue chu ban she, 2000.
  • Zhou, Guoyan 周国炎. 2013. Zhōngguó xīnán mínzú zájū dìqū yǔyán guānxì yǔ duō yǔ héxié yánjiū: Yǐ diān qián guì pílín mínzú zájū dìqū wèi yánjiū gè'àn 中国西南民族杂居地区语言关系与多语和谐研究：以滇黔桂毗邻民族杂居地区为研究个案. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中国社会科学出版社. ISBN 978-7-5161-1985-3


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