# Mai Chinese

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Variety of the Chinese language

Mai Maihua 邁話 Native to China Region Hainan (Sanya) Native speakers 15,000 (2007)[1] Language family Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Yue? Mai Language codes ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog None

**Mai** or **Maihua** ([simplified Chinese](/source/Simplified_Chinese_characters): 迈话; [traditional Chinese](/source/Traditional_Chinese_characters): 邁話; [pinyin](/source/Pinyin): *Màihuà*, meaning 'Mai speech') is a [variety of Chinese](/source/Variety_of_Chinese) of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of 崖县 *Yáxiàn* ([Sanya](/source/Sanya)) in southern [Hainan](/source/Hainan), China. It was classified as [Yue](/source/Yue_Chinese) in the *[Language Atlas of China](/source/Language_Atlas_of_China)*. Ouyang, Jiang & Zou (2019) consider Mai to be a divergent Yue Chinese variety with [Hakka](/source/Hakka_Chinese) 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]

## Names

Mai speakers refer to themselves as *mai¹³nɔn⁵⁵* (迈人).[2]

## Classification

Jiang et al. (2007) considers Mai to be a mix of [Yue Chinese](/source/Yue_Chinese), [Hakka](/source/Hakka_Chinese)-[Gan](/source/Gan_Chinese), and [Hainanese](/source/Hainanese) Min.[1]

## Distribution

Mai is spoken in the following four villages in southern [Hainan](/source/Hainan).[1]

- Yanglan Village (羊栏村), Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇), originally called Yanglan Town 羊栏镇), in the northwestern part of [Sanya](/source/Sanya) City (5,000 speakers). Mai speakers of Yanglan Village claimed that their ancestors had migrated from Shuinan Village (水南村) over 10 generations ago.

- Linjia Village (林家村) and Miaoshan Village (妙山村) of Miaolin Township (妙林乡, 6,000 speakers)

- Shuinan Village (水南村), Gongbei Village (拱北村), etc., in Yacheng Town (崖城镇), western Sanya City (三亚市, about 1,000 speakers)

The [Utsat language](/source/Utsat_language) is spoken just to the west of the Mai area. Just to the southwest is Haibo Village (海波村), where [Danzhouhua](/source/Danzhouhua) (儋州话) is spoken.

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Jiang2007_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Jiang2007_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Jiang2007_1-2) Jiang, Huo 江荻; Ouyang, Jueya 欧阳觉亚; Zou, Heyan 邹嘉彦 (2007). "Hǎinán Shěng Sānyà Shì Màihuà yīnxì" 海南省三亚市迈话音系. *Fāngyán* 方言 (in Chinese). **2007** (1): 23–34.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-MaihuaDiaocha_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-MaihuaDiaocha_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-MaihuaDiaocha_2-2) 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.

- [海南岛的"迈话"--一种混合型方言](http://www.doczj.com/doc/112bb2c02cc58bd63186bd4d.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210625092108/http://www.doczj.com/doc/112bb2c02cc58bd63186bd4d.html) 2021-06-25 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

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