Mak language
| Mak | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ELP | Mak (China) |
The Mak language (Chinese: 莫语; autonym: ’ai3 ma:k8[clarification needed]) 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[2]), 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.[3] 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 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.[3] 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
- ^ a b Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ni Dabai [倪大白]. 2010. 侗台语概论 [An introduction to Kam-Tai languages], p.249. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. ISBN 978-7-105-10582-3
- ^ a b Dabai, Ni. 1988. "Yangfeng Mak of Libo county." In Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit (eds.), Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai, 87-106. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 86. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Edmondson, J. A., & Solnit, D. B. (1988). Comparative Kadai: linguistic studies beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics, no. 86. [Arlington, Tex.]: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0-88312-066-6.
- 杨通银 / Yang Tongyin. 莫语研究 / Mo yu yan jiu (A Study of Mak). Beijing: 中央民族大学出版社 / Zhong yang min zu da xue chu ban she, 2000.