Mai dialect

Mai
邁話
Mài huà
Native to	China
Region	Hainan (Sanya)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese (unclassified) Mai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None

Mai (simplified Chinese: 迈话; traditional Chinese: 邁話; pinyin: Mài huà) is a variety of Chinese of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of 崖县 Yáxiàn (Sanya) in southern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the Language Atlas of China, but that is no longer certain.

References

Eastern	Fuzhou Fuqing Fu'an Manjiang

Southern	Hokkien Quanzhou Zhangzhou Amoy Taiwanese Philippine Hokkien Medan Hokkien Penang Hokkien Singaporean Hokkien Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien Zhenan Longyan Teochew Shantou Haifeng Zhongshan Nanlang Sanxiang

other	Northern Jian'ou Jianyang Central Pu–Xian Shao–Jiang Leizhou Zhanjiang Hainan

Proposed

Unclassified

Phonology

Literary forms

Official	Classical Adoption in Vietnam Vernacular

Other varieties of Chinese	Written Cantonese Written Dungan Written Hokkien Written Sichuanese

Standard	Simplified Traditional

Historical	Oracle bone Bronze Seal Clerical Semi-cursive Cursive

Braille	Cantonese Braille Mainland Chinese Braille Taiwanese Braille Two-Cell Chinese Braille

Other	Romanization Pinyin Wade–Giles Bopomofo Xiao'erjing Nüshu Chinese punctuation Taiwanese kana Dungan Cyrillic

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