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. It is spoken by ethnic Red

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in Longsheng County,

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province. There were more than 10,000 native speakers in 1997. It has been documented in detail by Ouyang (2010).

Phonology

Initials

Different towns in Longsheng have different inventories of consonants, differing from 18 in Pannei township to more than 20 in Heping and Mati townships. The characters in this table are based on Heping township's dialect. * Heping has /x/ but no /h/, Pannei has /h/ but no /x/, and Mati has both.

Finals

References

*Ōuyáng, Lán 欧阳澜. 2010. ''Guǎngxī lóngshèng hépíng xiāng yōuniànhuà yǔyīn cíhuì yánjiū'' 广西龙胜和平乡优念话语音词汇研究 'Research on the phonetics and vocabulary of Younianhua in Heping Town'' Doctoral dissertation, Guǎngxī Normal University 广西师范大学. *Li, Xinghui ��星辉 2018. ''Xiangan Jianghua Hanyu Tuhua yu Yaoyu bijiao yanjiu'' ��南江华汉语土话与瑶语比较研究 Beijing: Science Press ��学出版社 Varieties of Chinese Sino-Tibetan languages Yao people Languages of Guangxi {{SinoTibetan-lang-stub