Yongnan languages

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Yongnan
Yongnan Zhuang
Region China
Native speakers
(1.8 million cited 2000) [1]
Kra–Dai
  • Tai
    • various Zhuang branches
      • Yongnan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zyn
Glottolog yong1275

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 anywhere, 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)

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