Maojia (猫家 Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2013). Miao and Yao language [苗瑶语文]. Beijing: China Minzu University Press.) is a mixed language in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified Sinitic language that has undergone influence from Hmongic languages.Li, Lan 李藍. 2004. Hunan Chengbu Qingyi Miaoren hua 湖南城步靑衣苗人话. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中国社会科学出版社.
Demographics Maojiahua is spoken by about 200,000 people of Au-Ka (Aoka 奥卡) Miao ethnicity in Chengbu, Suining, Wugang and Suining in southwest part of Hunan Province, as well as in Ziyuan and Longsheng in the northern part of Guangxi Province.
According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32), "Maojia" (), also known as "Qingyi Miao 青衣苗", is spoken mostly in Chengbu County, Hunan, and also in Suining, Wugang, Longsheng, and Ziyuan counties. There is a total of about 120,000 speakers. The representative dialect given in Chen (2013) is that of Xintang Village 信塘村, Yangshi Township 羊石乡, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan Province. Li (2004) covers various dialects of Qingyi Miao in detail.
Vocabulary Below are selected words of likely non-Chinese origin from the Qingyi Miao dialect of Wutuan Town 五团镇, Chengbu County 城步县, Hunan (Li 2004).
English gloss Chinese gloss Qingyi Miao eat 吃 y²¹ oil 油 lu⁵² meat 肉 nai⁴⁴ pig 猪 te⁵⁵ small 小 nɑ⁵⁵ child 孩子 nɑŋ⁵⁵li³² nose 鼻子 pi⁵²haŋ²¹³ spider 蜘蛛 kiou⁵⁵ɕi⁵⁵ bedbug 臭虫 pie⁵⁵ star 星星 se⁵⁵le³² dust 灰尘 tʰoŋ⁵⁵din⁴⁴ this 这 ko²¹ that 那 mi⁴⁴ one 一 ɑ⁴⁴ thick (of soup) 稠 no⁵² hidden, secret 密 nin²¹³ earthworm 蚯蚓 din²¹kai³² sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca) 丝瓜 se³²tai⁵⁵kuɑ⁵⁵ infant 婴幼儿 naŋ⁵⁵le³² outsider 外地人 lai⁵²tɕie²¹³ŋ⁴⁴ son 儿子 naŋ⁵⁵li³², naŋ⁵⁵tsai³² spit 吐 ia⁵² vagina 女阴 tsɿ⁵⁵ do 做 niɑŋ⁵² excrement 屎 kai²¹³ squat, kneel 蹲 nioŋ⁵⁵ concave 凹 mie²¹ thin (of person) 廋 tse⁵⁵
References
Li, Lan 李藍. 2004. Hunan Chengbu Qingyi Miaoren hua 湖南城步青衣苗人话 (The language of the Qingyi Miao people). Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Press 中国社会科学出版社. Ming studies, 34–35:55, University of Minnesota, 1995