Jiamao

Proper noun

Jiamao

1. A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.
   • 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.2008, The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 639
   • 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.2021, Peipei Qiu, “Chinese "Comfort Women"”, in Bárbara Mujica, editor, Collateral Damage: Women Write about War, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page...
2. A Tai-Kadai language or possible language isolate spoken in southern Hainan, China.
   • Language: The Jiamao language differs most from the other Li varieties and shares only about 40% of its lexicon with the other Li languages.2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 293
   • Pray that the scriptures will be translated into the Jiamao language.n.d., “The Jiamao of China”, in Bethany World Prayer Center, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2004