Youjiang Zhuang
| Youjiang Zhuang | |
|---|---|
| Gangjdoj | |
 Geographic distribution of Youjiang Zhuang | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Guangxi |
Native speakers | 870,000 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Kra–Dai
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zyj |
| Glottolog | youj1238 |
Youjiang Zhuang, named after the Youjiang River in Guangxi, China, is a Northern Tai or Zhuang Language spoken in Tiandong County, Tianyang County, parts of the Youjiang District in Baise, Guangxi.
History and classification[]
Native speakers refer to the language as Gangjdoj, which means "the local language".
André-Georges Haudricourt in 1956 included the language of Tianzhou, the county seat of Tiangyang under Dioi, his name for Northern Zhuang.[2]
Based on data from the 1950s Guangxi Zhuang language survey, Tiandong, Tianyang and a suburb of Baise City were grouped together. This grouping was sometimes called Tianyangnese (Chinese:田阳音系). In the 1999 A Study of Zhuang Dialects this group was referred to as the Youjiang language (Chinese:右江土语),[3] and in 2007 Youjiang Zhuang was added as a separate language to Ethnologue.[1]
Phonology[]
Youjiang Zhuang has 10 tones, and can be considered as having 20 initials and 83 finals, though some speakers pronounce the initials /ʔb/ and /ʔd/ as /m/ and /n/ respectively.[4]
Writing System[]
Youjiang Zhuang has two main writing systems characters and romanization.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Youjiang Zhuang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Haudricourt, André-Georges (1956). "De la restitution des initiales dans les langues monosyllabiques : le problème du thai commun". Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (52): 307–322.
- ^ Zhang Junru (张均如). Zhuàngyǔ Fāngyán Yánjiù (壮语方言研究) [A Study of Zhuang dialects]. p. 30. ISBN 7-5409-2293-1.
- ^ Zhang Junru (张均如). Zhuàngyǔ Fāngyán Yánjiù (壮语方言研究) [A Study of Zhuang dialects]. pp. 62–65. ISBN 7-5409-2293-1.
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