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.[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 glossChinese glossQingyi Miao
eaty²¹
oillu⁵²
meatnai⁴⁴
pigte⁵⁵
smallnɑ⁵⁵
child孩子nɑŋ⁵⁵li³²
nose鼻子pi⁵²haŋ²¹³
spider蜘蛛kiou⁵⁵ɕi⁵⁵
bedbug臭虫pie⁵⁵
star星星se⁵⁵le³²
dust灰尘tʰoŋ⁵⁵din⁴⁴
thisko²¹
thatmi⁴⁴
oneɑ⁴⁴
thick (of soup)no⁵²
hidden, secretnin²¹³
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
spitia⁵²
vagina女阴tsɿ⁵⁵
doniɑŋ⁵²
excrementkai²¹³
squat, kneelnioŋ⁵⁵
concavemie²¹
thin (of person)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. 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. http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Aoka.pdf Archived 2013-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
  • 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
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