Yang Zhuang language
| Yang Zhuang | |
|---|---|
| Dejing | |
| Nung | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Southwestern Guangxi |
Native speakers | (870,000 in China cited 2000) |
Kra–Dai
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zyg |
Yang Zhuang, AKA Dejing Zhuang[dubious – discuss], is a Tai language spoken in southwestern Guangxi, China, in Napo, Jingxi and Debao counties.
Li Jinfang (1999) suggests that the Yang Zhuang originally spoke the Buyang language, and later assimilated with other Tai-speaking peoples (See Buyang people#History).
References
- Jackson, Eric M., Emily H.S. Jackson, and Shuh Huey Lau. 2011. "A sociolinguistic survey of the Dejing Zhuang dialect area." SIL International, East Asia Group.
- Johnson, Eric C. 2011a. "The Southern Zhuang Languages of Yunnan Province’s Wenshan Prefecture from a Sociolinguistic Perspective." [Working paper]. S.l.: s.n. 49 pages.
- Johnson, Eric C. 2011b. "A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages." SIL Electronic Working Papers 2011-005: 170.
- Li Jinfang (1999). Buyang yu yan jiu. Beijing: Central University for Nationalities Press.
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