Jiamao
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 加茂 (Jiāmào).
Proper noun
[edit]Jiamao
- 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.
- A Tai-Kadai language or possible language isolate spoken in southern Hainan, China.
- 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
[edit]town; language
See also
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- English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin
- English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin
- English terms borrowed from Mandarin
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- en:Towns in Hainan
- en:Towns in China
- en:Places in Hainan
- en:Places in China
- English terms with quotations