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Mai dialect

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Native to
  
China

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
Hainan (Sanya)

Glottolog
  
None

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Chinese (unclassified) Mai

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

Mai dialect Wikipedia