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]

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^ ^a ^b Ouyang, Jueya 欧阳觉亚; Jiang, Huo 江荻; Zou Jiayan 邹嘉彥. 2019. Sanya maihua diaocha baogao 三亚迈话调查报告. Beijing: Minzu University Publishing House 中国民族大学出版社.

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[MaihuaDiaocha-2] Ouyang, Jueya 欧阳觉亚; Jiang, Huo 江荻; Zou Jiayan 邹嘉彥. 2019. Sanya maihua diaocha baogao 三亚迈话调查报告. Beijing: Minzu University Publishing House 中国民族大学出版社.

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