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Textual records about Hainan Island are scarce due to its remoteness and inhabitation predominantly by non-Han peoples until the 10th century CE. That the island has been settled by people of different ethnic groups since ancient times has shaped its diversified and vibrant cultural and linguistic landscape. With reference to historical sources, linguistic evidence, as well as recent genetic and anthropological surveys, I will discuss in this talk the history of interaction between different ethnic groups on Hainan Island and the formation of the island’s linguistic ecology