Yongbei Zhuang

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.

Yongbei Zhuang
Geographic distribution of Yongbei Zhuang
Native toChina
Native speakers
2.0 million, including Wuming (2007)[1]
Kra–Dai
  • Tai
    • Northern Tai (Northern Zhuang)
      • Yongbei Zhuang
Language codes
ISO 639-3zyb
Glottologyong1276[2]

Yongbei is traditionally assumed to include Wuming dialect, the basis of Standard Zhuang. However, recent investigation has found that Wuming is part of Yongnan Zhuang.

References
  1. Yongbei Zhuang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yongbei Zhuang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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