Mak language

Mak
Mak
ʼai3 ma꞉k8
Native to	China
Region	Libo County, southern Guizhou
Ethnicity	10,000 (2000)[1]
Native speakers	5,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Kra–Dai Kam–Sui Mak; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mkg
Glottolog	makc1235
ELP	Mak (China)

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 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.[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.

References

Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
See Proto-Tai language#Tones for an explanation of the tone numbers.
Ni, Dabai 倪大白 (2010). Dòng-Táiyǔ gàilùn 侗台语概论 [An Introduction to Kam-Tai Languages] (in Chinese). Beijing Shi: Minzu chubanshe. p. 249. ISBN 978-7-105-10582-3.
Ni, Dabai (1988). "Yangfeng Mak of Libo County". In Edmondson, Jerold A.; Solnit, David B. (eds.). Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. pp. 87–106.

Edmondson, Jerold A.; Solnit, David B., eds. (1988). Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Yang, Tongyin 杨通银 (2000). Mòyǔ yánjiū 莫语研究 [A Study of Mak] (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.
Zhou, Guoyan 周国炎 (2013). Zhōngguó xīnán mínzú zájū dìqū yǔyán guānxì yǔduō yǔ héxié yánjiū: Yǐ Diān Qián Guì pílín mínzú zájū dìqū wèi yánjiū gè'àn 中国西南民族杂居地区语言关系与多语和谐研究：以滇黔桂毗邻民族杂居地区为研究个案 (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5161-1985-3.

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[e18-1] Mak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[tone-2] See Proto-Tai language#Tones for an explanation of the tone numbers.

[3] Ni, Dabai 倪大白 (2010). Dòng-Táiyǔ gàilùn 侗台语概论 [An Introduction to Kam-Tai Languages] (in Chinese). Beijing Shi: Minzu chubanshe. p. 249. ISBN 978-7-105-10582-3.

[Ni-4] Ni, Dabai (1988). "Yangfeng Mak of Libo County". In Edmondson, Jerold A.; Solnit, David B. (eds.). Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington. pp. 87–106.