The Zhuang language (autonym: Vahcuengh/Vaьcueŋь("Vah/Vaь" means language and "cuengh/cueŋь" means Zhuang); Chinese: 壮语; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) is a language from the Tai language group used by the Zhuang people. Most speakers live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region within the People's Republic of China, where it is an official language.
Standardized Zhuang is based on the dialect of Wuming County (武鸣县). Buyei is actually just a slightly differen...
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The Zhuang language (autonym: Vahcuengh/Vaьcueŋь("Vah/Vaь" means language and "cuengh/cueŋь" means Zhuang); Chinese: 壮语; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) is a language from the Tai language group used by the Zhuang people. Most speakers live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region within the People's Republic of China, where it is an official language.
Standardized Zhuang is based on the dialect of Wuming County (武鸣县). Buyei is actually just a slightly different standard form of Zhuang, used across the province border in Guizhou. There is a dialect continuum between Zhuang and Buyei.
Zhuang is a tonal language. It has six tones in open syllables:
It has two (high and low) in closed syllables.
Zhuang has been written with logographs called sawndip; some are borrowed directly from Han characters adopted to this language, and some original characters made up by using the similar manner of construction, for more than a thousand years, rather like Vietnamese Chữ nôm. Sawndip are used for writing songs...
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