Zhuang language

E126954

The Zhuang language is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily by the Zhuang ethnic group in Guangxi and surrounding regions of southern China.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Zhuang language canonical 15
Zhuang languages 5
Zhuang 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tai-Kadai language
language
tonal language
closelyRelatedTo Bouyei language
Lao language
Nung language
Thai language
country China
ethnicGroup Zhuang people
family Tai–Kadai languages
surface form: Tai-Kadai language family
glottologCode zhua1255
hasAlternativeName Zhuang language
surface form: Standard Zhuang

Vahcuengh
hasDialects Northern Tai
surface form: Northern Zhuang

Southern Zhuang
Wuming Zhuang
hasWritingSystem Sawndip
Standard Zhuang orthography
iso639-1Code za
iso639-2Code zha
iso639-3Code zha
languageFamilyBranch Tai branch
linguisticTypology analytic language
macrolanguageStatus ISO 639-3 macrolanguage
officialStatus official language of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length in some dialects
tones
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn China
region southern China
surface form: South China
script Chinese characters
Latin script
spokenIn Guangdong Province
Guangxi Province
surface form: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Guizhou Province
Yunnan Province
southern China
standardBasedOnDialect Wuming dialect
subfamily Central Tai
Northern Tai
usedBy Zhuang autonomous institutions in Guangxi
usedIn education in some areas of Guangxi
local media in Guangxi
usesLatinAlphabetSince 1950s
usesTraditionalScript Sawndip
wordOrder SVO
writingReform Latin-based orthography introduced in 1957
writingSystemType alphabetic
logographic (Sawndip)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Liuzhou, Guangxi, China localLanguage Zhuang language
subject surface form: Liuzhou
southern China hasLanguageGroup Zhuang language
subject surface form: Southern China
Tai–Kadai languages includesLanguage Zhuang language
Beihai languageUsed Zhuang language
Guangxi Province languageUsed Zhuang language
subject surface form: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
this entity surface form: Zhuang languages
Zhuang language hasAlternativeName Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Standard Zhuang
East Asian languages includesLanguage Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang
Pinghua hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang languages
Nanning majorLanguage Zhuang language
Zhuang people primaryLanguage Zhuang language
Wenshan language Zhuang language
Li language hasNeighboringLanguage Zhuang language
Guilin languageUsed Zhuang language
Tai languages hasMajorLanguage Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang languages
Bouyei language closelyRelatedTo Zhuang language
Lakkia language hasContactWith Zhuang language
Lakkia language hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Zhuang language
Lakkia–Biao languages contactWith Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang languages
Hepu County languageUsed Zhuang language
Silver Beach languageUsed Zhuang language
subject surface form: Silver Beach (Beihai)
this entity surface form: Zhuang
Yinhai District language Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang
Central Tai hasLanguage Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Xiangzhou Zhuang
Northern Tai relatedTo Zhuang language
this entity surface form: Zhuang languages
Tieshangang District languageUsed Zhuang language