Jiamao
See also: jiāmāo and jiǎmào
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 加茂 (Jiāmào).
Proper noun
Jiamao
- A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.
- 2008, The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Routledge, →ISBN, LCCN 2007046237, OCLC 1204913542, page 639:
- This variety, sometimes know as [tha:i¹¹], is spoken by about 70,000-80,000 people who live mainly in the Jiamao township, Baoting County, and in adjacent areas of Lingshui and Qiongzhong counties.
- 2021, Bárbara Mujica, editor, Collateral Damage: Women Write about War, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2020039749, OCLC 1201669672, page :
- In 2017, I visited a survivor, Chen Liancun, at Baoting County of Hainan Island.[...]At sixteen, she was abducted by Japanese soldiers and detained at the Jiamao military stronghold.
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- A Tai-Kadai language or possible language isolate spoken in southern Hainan, China.
- 2000, Hattaway, Paul, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, OCLC 241284506, OL 8478380M, page 293:
- Language: The Jiamao language differs most from the other Li varieties and shares only about 40% of its lexicon with the other Li languages.
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Translations
town; language
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See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Jiamao terms