Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County ( zhuang: ,) is a county of northern

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...

, China. It is under the administration of

Hechi Hechi () is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, bordering Guizhou to the north. In June 2002 it gained city status. Geography and climate Hechi is located in northwestern ...

City.

Administrative divisions

There are 7 towns and 4 townships in the county: * Towns (): ** Dongmen () ** Long'an () ** Huangjin () ** Xiaochang'an () ** Siba () ** Tianhe () **

Huaiqun Huaiqun () is a town in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2019 census it had a population of 23,581 and an area of . Administrative division As of 2021, the town is divided into one community and nine villages: * Huaiq ...

() *Townships (): **

Baotan Township Baotan Township () is a township in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2019 census it had a population of 21,389 and an area of . Administrative division As of 2021, the township is divided into one community and seven vi ...

() ** Qiaoshan Township () **

Naweng Township Naweng Township () is a township in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2019 census it had a population of 3,975 and an area of . Administrative division As of 2021, the township is divided into one community and five vil ...

() **

Jian'ai Township Jian'ai Township () is a township in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2019 census it had a population of 14,698 and an area of . Administrative division As of 2021, the township is divided into one community and ten vil ...

()

Languages

The Mulao language (or Mulam) is spoken by the

Mulao people The Mulao people (; own name: ''Mulam'') are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. In their name, ''Mulam'', ''mu''6 is a classifier for human beings and ''lam''1 (in some ...

of Luocheng County. At least seven varieties of Chinese are spoken in Luocheng County (Edmondson 1992:137). *

Putonghua Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standar ...

is the national language of China. *Gui-Liu Hua is a local

Pinghua Pinghua (; Yale: ''Pìhng Wá''; sometimes disambiguated as /) is a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in parts of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with some speakers in Hunan province. Pinghua is a trade language in some areas of Gu ...

variety spoken in

Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...

and

Liuzhou Liuzhou (; , IPA Pronunciation:) is a prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The prefecture's population was 3,758,700 in 2010, including 1,436,599 in the built-up area made of 4 urban ...

. It was spoken by government officials formerly sent to administer the region, and also used to be spoken in the provincial court. *Tuguai Hua is the local

Southwestern Mandarin Southwestern Mandarin (), also known as Upper Yangtze Mandarin (), is a Mandarin Chinese language spoken in much of Southwest China, including in Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, most parts of Hubei, the northwestern part of Hunan, the nort ...

vernacular spoken in Luocheng, Rongshui, and other nearby counties. *Magai is a Cantonese variety introduced by migrating merchants from

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...

. *Ngai is a form of Southern Chinese with seven tones. It is spoken by 20,000 Han peasant agriculturalists. *Yangsan is an archaic form of Chinese now spoken by only 300 people. It retains voiced stops and ten tones. *

Southern Min Southern Min (), Minnan ( Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwa ...

was introduced by recent migrants from

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...

Climate

References

* Edmondson, Jerold A. 1992. "Fusion and diffusion in E, Guangxi Province, China". T. Dutton et al. (eds.) ''The language game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock'' (Pacific Linguistic Series, C-110). Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, 135–144. County-level divisions of Guangxi Administrative divisions of Hechi Autonomous counties of the People's Republic of China {{Guangxi-geo-stub