Social:Yongbei Zhuang

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Short description: Zhuang variety of China
Yongbei Zhuang
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Geographic distribution of Yongbei Zhuang
Native toChina
Native speakers
2.0 million, including Wuming (2007)[1]
Kra–Dai
  • Tai
    • Northern Tai (Northern Zhuang)
      • Yongbei Zhuang
Language codes
ISO 639-3zyb
Glottologyong1276[2]

Yongbei Zhuang is a Zhuang variety including the dialects of Yongning North, Binyang, Hengxian, and Pingguo dialects. 'Yongbei' 邕北 is Chinese and here means North of the Yongjiang river; in other contexts it can stand for the north of Yongning County, or Yongning North.

As an areal group Yongbei includes Wuming dialect, the basis of Standard Zhuang. However, Wuming falls in the Yongnan-Wuming Zhuang comparative group.

References

  1. Yongbei Zhuang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yongbei Zhuang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yong1276.