Maojia dialect

Maojia
Native to	China
Region	Hunan, Guangxi
Ethnicity	Miao
Native speakers	(200,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	mixed Chinese–Miao
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Maojia (猫家 mau˥ka˥[1]) is a mixed language in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified Sinitic language that has undergone influence from Hmongic languages.[2]

Demographics

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.[3]

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 gloss	Chinese gloss	Qingyi Miao
eat	吃	y˨˩
oil	油	lu˥˨
meat	肉	nai˦
pig	猪	te˥
small	小	nɑ˥
child	孩子	nɑŋ˥li˧˨
nose	鼻子	pi˥˨haŋ˨˩˧
spider	蜘蛛	kiou˥ɕi˥
stinkbug	臭虫	pie˥
star	星星	se˥le˧˨
dust	灰尘	tʰoŋ˥din˦
this	这	ko˨˩
that	那	mi˦
one	一	ɑ˦
thick (of soup)	稠	no˥˨
secret	密	nin˨˩˧
earthworm	蚯蚓	din˨˩kai˧˨
sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca)	丝瓜	se˧˨tai˥kuɑ˥
infant	婴幼儿	naŋ˥le˧˨
outsider	外地人	lai˥˨tɕie˨˩˧ŋ˦
son	儿子	naŋ˥li˧˨, naŋ˥tsai˧˨
spit	吐	ia˥˨
vagina	女阴	tsɨ˥
do	做	niɑŋ˥˨
excrement	屎	kai˨˩˧
kneel	蹲	nioŋ˥
bent in, curved	凹	mie˨˩
thin	廋	tse˥

References

Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2013). Miao and Yao language [苗瑶语文]. Beijing: China Minzu University Press.
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.
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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[Chen2013-1] Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2013). Miao and Yao language [苗瑶语文]. Beijing: China Minzu University Press.

[2] 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.

[3] ttp://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Aoka.pdf