Mak language

Not to be confused with Mak language (Adamawa).

Mak
Spoken in	China
Region	Libo County, southern Guizhou
Native speakers	10,000  (1982)
Language family	Tai–Kadai Kam–Sui Mak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mkg

The Mak language (Chinese: 莫语; autonym: ʔai3 ma:k8) is a Kam–Sui language spoken in Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is spoken mainly in the four townships of Yangfeng, Fangcun, Jialian, and Diwo in Jialiang District, Libo County. Mak speakers can also be found in Dushan County. Mak is spoken alongside Ai-Cham and Buyei.^[1]

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.^[1] 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. ^ ^{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 0883120666.