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Jiamao (加茂 or Kamau) is one of the languages of the Li people. Unlike the other languages spoken by the Li however it is not Hlai and is currently unclassified though Thurgood suspects that it might be Austroasiatic.[citation needed]In the 1980s Jiamao was spoken by 50000 people in central and south-central Hainan Island mostly in Jiamao Township (加茂镇) Baoting County (保亭县). It shares less than half of its lexicon with standard Hlai.There are four Jiamao dialects.