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Jiamao
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jiāmāo jiǎmào
English
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Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 加茂.
Pronunciation
jyä′mou′
en Jia mao
Proper noun
en town county/Baoting p/Hainan c/China.
en 2008 The Tai-Kadai Languages Routledge Language Family Series https://books.google.com/books?id=0lmQAgAAQBAJ w:Routledge 978-0-700-71457-5 2007046237 1204913542 639 https://books.google.com/books?id=0lmQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA639 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.
en 2021 Peipei Qiu Chinese "Comfort Women" Bárbara Mujica Collateral Damage: Women Write about War https://books.google.com/books?id=4q0BEAAAQBAJ w:University of Virginia Press 9780813945729 2020039749 1201669672 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.
en 2000 Paul Hattaway Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China https://archive.org/details/operationchinain0000hatt/ Piquant 0-9535757-5-6 241284506 8478380M 293 https://archive.org/details/operationchinain0000hatt/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.
en n.d. The Jiamao of China https://web.archive.org/web/20040423214738/http://kcm.co.kr/bethany_eng/p_code4/2488.html 23 April 2004 http://kcm.co.kr/bethany_eng/p_code4/2488.html Bethany World Prayer Center Pray that the scriptures will be translated into the Jiamao language.
en 2007 w:Peter K. Norquest A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai https://web.archive.org/web/20180526041632/https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/194203/azu_etd_2517_sip1_m.pdf 26 May 2018 w:University of Arizona 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:
Cantonese: yue 加茂
Mandarin: cmn 加茂 Jiāmào
French: fr jiamao m (language)
Japanese: ja
See also
Wiktionary's coverage of Jiamao terms