Zhuang
Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in China, by about 2 million people.
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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.
As an areal group Yongbei includes Wuming dialect, the basis of Standard Zhuang. However, Wuming falls in the Yongnan-Wuming Zhuang comparative group.
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Written down
Boux boux ma daengz lajmbwn couh miz cwyouz, cinhyenz caeuq genzli bouxboux Bingzdaengj. gyoengq vunz miz lijsing caeuq liengzsim, wngdang daih gyoengq de lumj beixnuengx ityiengh.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Zhuang
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ma | |
| father | baz | |
| child | lwg | |
| man | sai | |
| woman | caeuzyah | |
| person | boux | |
| name | mingzcih | |
| friend | baengz | |
| eye | da | |
| ear | rwz | |
| nose | ndaeng | |
| tooth | heuj | |
| tongue | linx | |
| hand | mwz | |
| heart | sim | |
| head | gyaeuj | |
| blood | lowd | |
| bone | goet | |
| skin | naeng | |
| knee | hoq | |
| liver | daep | |
| water | raemx | |
| fire | feiz | |
| sun | daengngoenz | |
| moon | ronghndwen | |
| star | ndaundeiq | |
| sky | mbwn | |
| rain | fwn | |
| snow | nae | |
| wind | rumz |
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Vocabulary
- Central Hongshuihe ZhuangTai-Kadai71% alike
- Guibian ZhuangTai-Kadai65% alike
- YoyTai-Kadai61% alike
- BouyeiTai-Kadai58% alike
- Guibei ZhuangTai-Kadai58% alike
- Liujiang ZhuangTai-Kadai52% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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