Dictionary of Hainan languages related terms

(version 1)

• Baoxian - place on Hainan (latitude: 18.73333, longitude: 109.0597); territory where Ha language/dialect is spoken
• Bendi - language or dialect spoken on Hainan; according to different sources (cf. Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) Bendi is considered as subgroup of Hlai language; Bendi may be considered as ethnic subgroup of Hlai people; according to Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) there are 44,000 speakers of Bendi.
• Bli - see Hlai.
• Dai - see Hlai.
• Day - see Hlai.
• Dli - see Hlai.
• Ha - according to Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) majority population of Hlai people (432,000).
  
• Hainan - the island south of China, between Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea; for details see Hainan on Wikipedia.
• Hlai - language or group of languages and ethnonym for the majority of Hainan aboriginals. Sometimes separated onto Hlai and Jiamao, but Jiamao is considered as separate language.
• region - Mountains in central and south central Hainan Province, southern China (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic).
• ethnonyms and linguonyms - Li, Dai, Day, Lai, La, Loi, Le, Dli, Bli, Klai, Slai (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic).
• population -
• according to Ouyang Jueya / Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic):
• 667,000 (1999 Ouyang Jueya). 160,000 monolinguals (24% of population—10% children and 14% adults). 432,000 Ha, 178,000 Qi, 52,000 Jiamao, 44,000 Bendi, 30,000 Meifu (1990 census).
• Jiamao - language and ethnonym for aboriginal group of Hainan inhabitants; according to Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) there are 52,000 Jiamao people; sometimes Jiamao is considered as a subgroup of Hlai people, but language is mostly considered separately.
  
• Jueya, Ouyang - see Ouyang Jueya
• Klai - see Hlai.
• La - see Hlai.
• Lai - see Hlai.
• Le - see Hlai.
• Loi - see Loi.
• Li - Chinese name for aboriginal people of Hainan; usually used for for description of all aboriginal people and their languages as well as for Hlai people and their languages.
  
• LIC - ISO/DIS 639-3 code for Hlai language.
• Meifu - language or dialect spoken on Hainan; according to different sources (cf. Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) Meifu is considered as subgroup of Hlai language; Meifu may be considered as ethnic subgroup of Hlai people; according to Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) there are 30,000 speakers of Meifu.
  
• Min - a general term for a group of dialects of Chinese language spoken in southeastern China, including north Hainan; for details see Min (linguistics) on Wikipedia.
• Ouyang Jueya - contemporary linguist who is working on Hlai language.
• Qi - language or dialect spoken on Hainan; according to different sources (cf. Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) Qi is considered as subgroup of Hlai language; Qi may be considered as ethnic subgroup of Hlai people; according to Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lic) there are 178,000 speakers of Qi.
• Slai - see Hlai.