Yongnan languages

Kra–Dai language of southern China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Yongnan
Yongnan Zhuang
RegionChina
Native speakers
(1.8 million cited 2000)[1]
Kra–Dai
  • Tai
    • various Zhuang branches
      • Yongnan
Language codes
ISO 639-3zyn
Glottologyong1275
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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.

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