Maojia (ç«家 ') is a mixed language in Southern China. Maojiahua is an unclassified Sinitic language that has undergone influence from Hmongic languages.
Maojiahua is spoken by about 200,000 people of Au-Ka (Aoka 奥å¡) Miao ethnicity in Chengbu, Suining, Wugang and Suining in southwest part of Hunan Province, as well as in Ziyuan and Longsheng in the northern part of Guangxi Province.
According to Chen Qiguang (2013:32), "Maojia" ('), also known as "Qingyi Miao éÂÂè¡£èÂÂ", is spoken mostly in Chengbu County, Hunan, and also in Suining, Wugang, Longsheng, and Ziyuan counties. There is a total of about 120,000 speakers. The representative dialect given in Chen (2013) is that of Xintang Village ä¿¡å¡ÂæÂÂ, Yangshi Township ç¾Âç³乡, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan Province. Li (2004) covers various dialects of Qingyi Miao in detail.
Below are selected words of likely non-Chinese origin from the Qingyi Miao dialect of Wutuan Town äºÂå¢éÂÂ, Chengbu County Ã¥ÂÂæÂ¥å¿, Hunan (Li 2004).