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(Redirected from Yongnan Zhuang language) Kra–Dai language of southern China
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Yongnan
Yongnan Zhuang
RegionChina
Native speakers1.8 million (2000)
Language familyKra–Dai
  • Tai
    • various Zhuang branches
      • Yongnan
Language codes
ISO 639-3zyn
Glottologyong1275

Yongnan, or Yongnan Zhuang, is a dialect-bund sharing common features but not common innovations of Zhuang languages of southern China.

In the classification of Pittiyaporn (2009), Yongnan is not a single language, or even a natural group, but parts of two main branches of the Tai language family (clades C, I, and M):

* Not considered Yongnan anywhewre, nor considered Yongnan by Pittiyaporn but placed here to make the clade D monophyletic.

See Tai languages for details.

References

  1. Yongnan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Sources

  • Pittayaporn, Pittayawat. 2009. The Phonology of Proto-Tai. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.
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