Caijia is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Guizhou Province in the south of China by about 1,000 people. In particular, it is spoken in Hezhang, Zhijin, Shuicheng and Zhenxiong counties in Bijie prefecture in the northwest of Guizhou. Caijia is possibly related to the Bai language, or is a descendent of Old Chinese and is related to Waxiang, a variety of Chinese spoken in the northwest of Hunan province.
Caijia is known as 蔡家话 (càijiāhuà) in Chinese, and Caijia speakers call their language Menni.
Caijia is spoken mostly by older people, and few people acquire the language as children, who are more likely to speak the local variety of Mandarin. As a result, it is considered endangered.
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Information about Caijia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caijia_language
https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Caijia.htm
https://cultureincrisis.org/projects/caijia-cross-dialectal-documentation-of-a-highly-endangered-language-in-guizhou-province-of-china
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/caij1234
Angami, Bai, Caijia, Darmiya, Miju, Rawang, Tangut, Thangmi, Tujia, Vaiphei
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created on 29.12.25. Last modified: 29.12.25
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