Yongnan languages

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

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

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):

• (clade C) Yongnan Zhuang of Chongzuo (崇左), Yongnan Zhuang of Shangsi (上思), Caolan of Vietnam*
• (clade D)
  • (clade I) Yongnan Zhuang of Qinzhou (钦州)
  • (clade J)
    • (clade M) Wuming (Shuangqiao) dialect (武鸣)*, Yongnan Zhuang proper (邕南), Yongnan Zhuang of Long'an (隆安), Yongnan Zhuang of Fusui (扶绥)
    • (clade N)* Northern Tai: Saek, Bouyei, and other Northern Zhuang

* Not considered Yongnan anywhewre, nor considered Yongnan by Pittiyaporn but placed here to make the clade D monophyletic.

See Tai languages for details.

Sources

• Pittayaporn, Pittayawat. 2009. The Phonology of Proto-Tai. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.