Yongnan, or Yongnan Zhuang, is a dialect-bund sharing common features but not common innovations of
Zhuang languages
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of southern
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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):
*(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 anywhere, nor considered Yongnan by Pittiyaporn but placed here to make the clade D monophyletic.
See
Tai languages
The Tai, Zhuang–Tai, or Daic languages (Ahom language, Ahom: 𑜁𑜪𑜨 𑜄𑜩 or 𑜁𑜨𑜉𑜫 𑜄𑜩 ; ; or , ; , ) are a branch of the Kra–Dai languages, Kra–Dai language family. The Tai languages include the most widely spo ...
for details.
References
Sources
*Pittayaporn, Pittayawat. 2009. ''The Phonology of Proto-Tai.'' Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Linguistics, Cornell University.
Tai languages
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