Mak language
| Mak | |
|---|---|
| ʼai3 ma꞉k8 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Libo County, southern Guizhou |
| Ethnicity | 10,000 (2000)[1] |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mkg |
| Glottolog | makc1235 |
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The Mak language (Chinese: 莫语; autonym: ʔai3 maːk8)[2] is a Kam–Sui language spoken in Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is spoken mainly in the four townships of Yangfeng (羊/阳风乡, including Dali 大利村 and Xinchang 新场村 dialects[3]), Fangcun (方村), Jialiang (甲良), and Diwo (地莪) in Jialiang District (甲良), Libo County. Mak speakers can also be found in Dushan County. Mak is spoken alongside Ai-Cham and Bouyei.[4] The Mak, also called Mojia (莫家) in Chinese, are officially classified as Bouyei by the Chinese government.[5]
Yang (2000) considers Ai-Cham and Mak to be different dialects of the same language.
The Fangcun dialect was first studied by Fang-Kuei Li in 1942, and the Yangfeng dialect was studied in the 1980s by Dabai Ni of the Minzu University of China.[4] Ni also noted that the Mak people only sing Bouyei folk songs, and that about 5,000 Mak people have shifted to the Bouyei language.
Dialects
[edit | edit source]Wu et al. (2016) contains a 2,531-item word list of 5 Mak dialects. Wu et al. (2016) also has data tables comparing a few hundred words in Bouyei, Sui, and Mak. The Mak dialects compared, each of which are spoken in their respective townships, are:[6]
- Jialiang 甲良
- Fangcun 方村
- Yangfeng 阳凤
- Boyao 播尧 (Diwo 地莪)
- Jichang 基长
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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