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Preferred term

jioJiamao  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Jiamao is one of the Hlai languages of the Li people. In the 1980s it was spoken by 50,000 people in central and south-central Hainan Island, mostly in Jiamao Township, Baoting County. It shares less than half of its lexicon with standard Hlai. Graham Thurgood has suggested that Jiamao was originally a non-Hlai (possibly Austro-Asiatic) language.

Entry terms

  • Jiamao language

ISO 639-3 code

  • jio

Notation

  • jio

In other languages

  • Jiamao

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/jio

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