Mai Chinese

Mai
Mai
Maihua
邁話
Native to	China
Region	Hainan (Sanya)
Native speakers	15,000 (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Yue? Mai; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Mai or Maihua (simplified Chinese: 迈话; traditional Chinese: 邁話; pinyin: Màihuà, meaning 'Mai speech') is a variety of Chinese of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of 崖がけ县 Yáxiàn (Sanya) in southern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China. Ouyang, Jiang & Zou (2019) consider Mai to be a divergent Yue Chinese variety with Hakka and other mixed influences. There are just over 10,000 speakers of Mai in southern Hainan.^[2]

A comprehensive description of Mai was published in a monograph by Ouyang, Jiang & Zou (2019).^[2]

Names

Mai speakers refer to themselves as mai¹³nɔn⁵⁵ (迈人).^[2]

Classification

Jiang et al. (2007) considers Mai to be a mix of Yue Chinese, Hakka-Gan, and Hainanese Min.^[1]

Distribution

Mai is spoken in the following four villages in southern Hainan.^[1]

Yanglan Village (羊ひつじ栏村), Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇), originally called Yanglan Town 羊ひつじ栏镇), in the northwestern part of Sanya City (5,000 speakers). Mai speakers of Yanglan Village claimed that their ancestors had migrated from Shuinan Village (水南すいなん村むら) over 10 generations ago.
Linjia Village (林家はやしや村むら) and Miaoshan Village (妙みょう山村さんそん) of Miaolin Township (妙みょう林りん乡, 6,000 speakers)
Shuinan Village (水南すいなん村むら), Gongbei Village (拱北村むら), etc., in Yacheng Town (崖がけ城じょう镇), western Sanya City (三さん亚市, about 1,000 speakers)

The Utsat language is spoken just to the west of the Mai area. Just to the southwest is Haibo Village (海うみ波なみ村むら), where Danzhouhua (儋州话) is spoken.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Jiang, Huo 江こう荻おぎ; Ouyang, Jueya 欧おう阳觉亚; Zou, Heyan 邹嘉彦よしひこ (2007). "Hǎinán Shěng Sānyà Shì Màihuà yīnxì" 海南かいなん省しょう三亚市迈话音系. Fāngyán 方言ほうげん (in Chinese). 2007 (1): 23–34.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ouyang, Jueya 欧おう阳觉亚; Jiang, Huo 江こう荻おぎ; Zou Jiayan 邹嘉彥. 2019. Sanya maihua diaocha baogao 三亚迈话调查报告. Beijing: Minzu University Publishing House 中国ちゅうごく民族みんぞく大学だいがく出版しゅっぱん社しゃ.

海南かいなん岛的"迈话"--一いち种混合こんごう型がた方言ほうげん

[Jiang2007-1] Jiang, Huo 江こう荻おぎ; Ouyang, Jueya 欧おう阳觉亚; Zou, Heyan 邹嘉彦よしひこ (2007). "Hǎinán Shěng Sānyà Shì Màihuà yīnxì" 海南かいなん省しょう三亚市迈话音系. Fāngyán 方言ほうげん (in Chinese). 2007 (1): 23–34.

[MaihuaDiaocha-2] Ouyang, Jueya 欧おう阳觉亚; Jiang, Huo 江こう荻おぎ; Zou Jiayan 邹嘉彥. 2019. Sanya maihua diaocha baogao 三亚迈话调查报告. Beijing: Minzu University Publishing House 中国ちゅうごく民族みんぞく大学だいがく出版しゅっぱん社しゃ.

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