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Yongnan languages

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Region
  
China

ISO 639-3
  
zyn

Native speakers
  
1.8 million (2000)

Glottolog
  
yong1275

Language family
  
Tai–Kadai Tai Yongnan

Yongnan, or Yongnan Zhuang, is a putative Tai language of southern China.

Languages

In the classification of Pittiyaporn (2009), Yongnan is not a single language, or even a natural group, but parts of two main branches of the Tai language family (clades C, I, and M). See Tai languages#Pittayaporn (2009) for a list.

References

Yongnan languages Wikipedia