Mak language

The Mak language is a Kam–Sui language spoken in Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is spoken mainly in the four townships of Yangfeng, Fangcun, Jialiang, and Diwo in Jialiang District, Libo County. Mak speakers can also be found in Dushan County. Mak is spoken alongside Ai-Cham and Bouyei. The Mak, also called Mojia in Chinese, are officially classified as Bouyei by the Chinese government.
Yang considers Ai-Cham and Mak to be different dialects of the same language.
The Fangcun dialect was first studied by Fang-Kuei Li in 1942, and the Yangfeng dialect was studied in the 1980s by Dabai Ni of the Minzu University of China. Ni also noted that the Mak people only sing Bouyei folk songs, and that about 5,000 Mak people have shifted to the Bouyei language.

Dialects

Wu et al. contains a 2,531-item word list of 5 Mak dialects. Wu et al. also has data tables comparing a few hundred words in Bouyei, Sui, and Mak. The Mak dialects compared, each of which are spoken in their respective townships, are:

Jialiang 甲良
Fangcun 方村
Yangfeng 阳凤
Boyao 播尧
Jichang 基长