Maihua
Mai is a variety of Chinese of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of 崖县 Yáxiàn in southern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China, but that is no longer certain. There are about 15,000 speakers of Maihua in southern Hainan.Classification
Jiang, et al. considers Maihua to be a mix of Yue Chinese, Hakka-Gan, and Hainanese Min.Distribution
Maihua is spoken in the following areas.
- Yanglan Village 羊栏村, Fenghuang Town 凤凰镇, in the northwestern part of Sanya City
- Linjia Village 林家村 and Miaoshan Village 妙山村 of Miaolin Township 妙林乡
- Shuinan Village 水南村, Gongbei Village 拱北村, etc., in Yacheng Town 崖城镇, western Sanya City 三亚市
The Utsat language is spoken just to the west of the Maihua area. Just to the southwest is Haibo Village 海波村, where Danzhouhua 儋州话 is spoken.
