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Po-ai, a Tai language of Funing County described by Fang-kuei Li in the mid-1900s, was determined by Johnson (2011b) to be a Yei Zhuang dialect. Names. Below are various names (both autonyms and exonyms) for speakers of Yei Zhuang (Johnson 2011a:43). pu Nong (濮侬) pu35 ʔjai34, pu33 juei34, pu22 jai13; bu ji (Qiubei) bu Yai (布雅衣)
other Northern Zhuang. Glottolog. nort3180. Distribution of Northern Tai and Central Tai languages (Zhuang, Tay-Nung and Bouyei included) The Northern Tai languages are an established branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia. They include the northern Zhuang languages and Bouyei of China, Tai Mène of Laos and Yoy of Thailand.
Sawndip is a Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for Chinese characters used in the Chinese language is sawgun (Sawndip: 𭨡倱; "characters of the Han"); gun is the Zhuang term for the Han Chinese. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.
Longsang Zhuang (Chinese: 隆桑壮语) is an underdescribed Northern Tai language spoken in Longsang Township 隆桑镇, Debao County, Guangxi, China. Although its autonym and exonym are both jaːŋ A1-G , [1] it is completely distinct from Yang Zhuang , a Central Tai language (Liao 2016:377).
Language codes. ISO 639-3. zyg. Glottolog. yang1286. Geographic distribution of Yang Zhuang. Yang Zhuang is a Tai language spoken in southwestern Guangxi, China, in Napo, Jingxi and Debao counties. Li Jinfang (1999) suggests that the Yang Zhuang originally spoke the Buyang language, and later assimilated with other Tai-speaking peoples ( See ...
Zhuang studies. Zhuang studies (or Zhuangology; Standard Zhuang: Cuenghhag; simplified Chinese: 壮学; traditional Chinese: 壯學; pinyin: Zhuàngxué) is an interdisciplinary intellectual field concerned with the Zhuang people – their history, anthropology, religion, politics, languages, and literature. The majority of such research is ...
Zhuang. Look up Zhuang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zhuang may refer to: Zhuang people (or Bouxcuengh people), ethnic group in China. Zhuang languages, the Tai language spoken by them. Zhuang logogram, a former script used to write the language. Zhuang Zhou, ancient Chinese philosopher. Zhuang (surname) (庄/莊), a Chinese surname.
