Maojia dialect

Maojia
Native toChina
RegionHunan, Guangxi
EthnicityMiao
Native speakers
(200,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Maojia (猫家 mau55 ka55[1]) is a mixed language in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified Sinitic language that has undergone influence from Hmongic languages.[which?][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 the northern part of Guangxi Province.[3]

According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32),[1] "Maojia" (mau55 ka55), 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 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
bedbug 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
hidden, 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
squat, kneel 蹲 nioŋ⁵⁵
concave 凹 mie²¹
thin (of person) 廋 tse⁵⁵

References

  1. ^ a b c 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 中国社会科学出版社.
  3. ^ "Aoka" (PDF). asiaharvest.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013.
  • 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