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.