Social: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] |
Kra–Dai
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mkg |
| Glottolog | makc1235[2] |
The Mak language (Chinese: 莫语; autonym: ʔai3 maːk8)[3] 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[4]), 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.[5] The Mak are officially classified as Bouyei by the Chinese government.
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.[5] 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mak (China)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/makc1235.
- ↑ See Proto-Tai language for an explanation of the tone numbers.
- ↑ Ni, Dabai 倪大白 (2010) (in zh). Dòng-Táiyǔ gàilùn. Beijing Shi: Minzu chubanshe. p. 249. ISBN 978-7-105-10582-3.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ni, Dabai (1988). "Yangfeng Mak of Libo County". in Edmondson, Jerold A.. Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. pp. 87-106.
- Edmondson, Jerold A., ed (1988). Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Yang, Tongyin 杨通银 (2000) (in zh). Mòyǔ yánjiū. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.
- Zhou, Guoyan 周国炎 (2013) (in zh). Zhōngguó xīnán mínzú zájū dìqū yǔyán guānxì yǔduō yǔ héxié yánjiū: Yǐ Diān Qián Guì pílín mínzú zájū dìqū wèi yánjiū gè'àn. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5161-1985-3.
 |
