Maojia (猫家 'Chen, Qiguang ��其光(2013). ''Miao and Yao language'' ��瑶语文 Beijing: China Minzu University Press.) is a

mixed language A mixed language is a language that arises among a bilingual group combining aspects of two or more languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language. It differs from a creole language, creole or pidgin, pidgin language in that ...

in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified

Sinitic The Sinitic languages (漢語族/汉语族), often synonymous with "Chinese languages", are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there is ...

language that has undergone influence from Hmongic languages.

Demographics

Maojiahua is spoken by about 200,000 people of Au-Ka (Aoka 奥卡)

Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

ethnicity An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

Chengbu Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

Suining Suining (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Xu4nin2; Sichuanese pronunciation: ; ) is a prefecture-level city of eastern Sichuan province in Southwest China. In 2002, Suining had a population of 658,798. Geography and climate Suining is located in the cent ...

, Wugang and

in southwest part of

Hunan Province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi t ...

, as well as in Ziyuan and Longsheng in north part of

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

Province.http://asiaharvest.org/wp-content/themes/asia/docs/people-groups/China/chinaPeoples/A/Aoka.pdf According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32), "Maojia" ('), also known as "Qingyi Miao 青衣苗", is spoken mostly in

Chengbu County Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, 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 Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

, 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,

城步县, Hunan (Li 2004).

References

*Li, Lan 李藍. 2004. ''Hunan Chengbu Qingyi Miaoren hua'' 湖南城步靑衣苗人话 (The language of the Qingyi Miao people). Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中國社会科学出版社. *''Ming studies'', 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1995 {{Languages of China Chinese-based pidgins and creoles Languages of China Mixed languages Hmongic languages