Jiamao

See also: jiāmāo and jiǎmào

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 加茂 (Jiāmào).

Proper noun

Jiamao

1. A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.
   • 2008, The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[2], University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [3]:

     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.

2. A Tai-Kadai language or possible language isolate spoken in southern Hainan, China.
   • 2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China‎^[4], Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

   • n.d., “The Jiamao of China”, in Bethany World Prayer Center‎^[5], archived from the original on 23 April 2004‎^[6]:

     Pray that the scriptures will be translated into the Jiamao language.

   • 2007, Peter K. Norquest, A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai‎^[7], University of Arizona, archived from the original on 26 May 2018, page 33:

     Lauhut and Tongzha also cover fairly large areas, and Jiamao, while generally spoken in the southeastern end of the island, has pockets of speakers further north.

Translations

town; language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加茂 (Jiāmào)

• French: jiamao m (language)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Jiamao terms