lingvoj.orgLinked Languages ResourcesA contribution to the Web of Databy Bernard Vatant, Mondeca |
Liuqian Zhuang |
zlqSearch languages |
Complete list of languages | This page in other languages : [fr] |
The Zhuang languages are any of various Tai languages natively spoken by the Zhuang people. They are an ethnic rather than
linguistic group. Most speakers live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region within the People's Republic of China, where
Standard Zhuang is an official language. Across the provincial border in Guizhou, Bouyei has also been standardized. Over
one million speakers also live in China's Yunnan province. The sixteen ISO 639-3 registered Zhuang languages are not mutually
intelligible without previous exposure on the part of speakers, and some of them are themselves multiple languages. There
is a dialect continuum between Wuming and Bouyei, as well as between Zhuang and various (other) Nung languages such as Tày,
Nùng, and San Chay of northern Vietnam. However, the Zhuang languages do not form a linguistic unit; any cladistic unit that
includes the various varieties of Zhuang would include all the Tai languages. Citing the fact that both the Zhuang and Thai
peoples have the same exonym for the Vietnamese, kɛɛu, Jerold A. Edmondson of the University of Texas, Arlington posited that
the split between Zhuang and the Southwest Tai languages happened no earlier than the founding of Jiaozhi (交址) in Vietnam
in 112 BC, but no later than the 5th–6th century AD. |
Names (more)[en] Liuqian Zhuang |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Liuqian Zhuang. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : zlqLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/zlqhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:zlq More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: zlqFreebase ISO 639-3 : zlq GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |