Yongnan languages explained

Yongnan
Nativename:Yongnan Zhuang
Region:China
Speakers:1.8 million
Date:2000
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Kradai
Fam2:Tai
Fam3:various Zhuang branches
Iso3:zyn
Glotto:yong1275
Glottorefname:Yongnan Zhuang

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 anywhewre, nor considered Yongnan by Pittiyaporn but placed here to make the clade D monophyletic.

See Tai languages for details.

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