Yongbei Zhuang is a Zhuang variety including the dialects of Yongning North, Binyang, Hengxian, and Pingguo dialects. 'Yongbei' 邕北 is Chinese and here means North of the Yongjiang river; in other contexts it can stand for the north of
Yongning County, or Yongning North.
As an areal group Yongbei includes ''
Wuming'' dialect, the basis of
Standard Zhuang
Standard Zhuang ( autonym: , ; pre-1982 autonym: ; Sawndip: ; ) is the official standardized form of the Zhuang languages, which are a branch of the Northern Tai languages. Its pronunciation is based on that of the Yongbei Zhuang dialect ...
. However, Wuming falls in the
Yongnan-Wuming Zhuang comparative group.
References
{{Tai-Kadai languages
Languages of Guangxi
Tai languages