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).
Distribution
Zhuang dialects given in the county almanacs of Jingxi County, Debao County, and Napo County are listed below. This region is also known as the "Jingxi" 德靖 area. All names and statistics are from the local county almanacs (县志), as quoted in Jackson, et al (2011). Note that these divisions are oftentimes ethnic rather than geographic. Thus, some "Yang" peoples may actually speak non-Yang Zhuang dialects, and vice versa. Jackson (2011) shows that most Yang dialects do indeed form a distinctive subgroup against Fu (also shown to be a distinctive subgroup) and Nong.
Variants with multiple names include:
- Yang 仰 in Jingxi / Nongshun 农顺 in Napo
- Fu 府 in Jingxi / Lang 狼 in Debao / Nongfu 农府 in Napo
- Zuozhou 佐州 in Jingxi / Zhazhou 炸州 in Napo
Jingxi County
Below are the various Zhuang dialects of Jingxi County. The townships with which the most speakers of the dialect live in are also given. Only "Yang 仰" corresponds to Yang Zhuang.
- Yang 仰[1]: 371,892 speakers; all townships
- Zong 宗: 75,957 speakers; Guole 果乐乡, Longlin 龙临镇, Wuping 武平乡, Kuixiu, Quyang
- Long'an 隆安 (Nong'an 侬安): 26,102 speakers; Quyang, Bameng, Dadao, Longlin 龙临镇
- Zuozhou 佐州[2]: 27,011 speakers; Dadao, Longlin 龙临镇, Ronglao, Ludong
- Rui/Yei 锐: 11,304 speakers; Kuixiu, Bameng
- Sheng 省: 14,718 speakers; Kuixiu
- Fu 府: 1,146 speakers; Bameng, Dadao
- Total: 528,130
Debao County
Zhuang dialects of Debao County are:
- Lang 狼话[3]： 255,000 speakers in all townships
- Min 敏话： 17,000 speakers in Fuping township, near Napo County
- Nong Zhuang 侬话
- Nong Zhuang 侬话 (Southern): 17,000 speakers in Ma'ai township, Du'an township, and 4 villages in Dongguan township
- Nong Zhuang 侬话 (Northern - Baise): 34,000 speakers in Dongling township and Puxu township
- Nong Zhuang 侬话 (Northern - Tiandong): 17,000 speakers in Longsang township
- Total: 340,000
Napo County
Yang 央 dialects of Napo County are:
- Yangzhou 央州: 41 villages
- Yangdong 央垌: 100 villages
- Yanggai 央改: 3 villages
- Yangwu 央伍 (Yangniao 央鸟): 24 villages
- Yangtai 央台: 22 villages
- Yangwo 央窝
- Yanglong 央龙
- Yangyin 央音
- Yangjie 央介
- Yangnan 央南
Non-Yang dialects and their distributions in Napo County are:
- Min 敏话: all townships
- Dong 峒话
- Nong 农话
- Nongshun 农顺[4]: Longhe township 龙合
- Nongfu 农府: Chengxiang township 城厢
- Bunong 布侬[5]: Baidu township 百都, Baisheng township 百省
- Rui/Yei 锐: Longhe township 龙合
- Ao 嗷: Chengxiang township 城厢
- Sheng 省: Pingmeng township 平孟
- Jue 决: Chengxiang township 城厢
- Yong 拥
- Long'an 隆安: Longhe township 龙合, Baidu township 百都, Chengxiang township 城厢
- Zhazhou 炸州[6]: Longhe township 龙合
Notes and 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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