Pyang Zhuang, or Fuping Zhuang (), is an underdescribed

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language spoken in southwestern

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, China. It appears to be most closely related to Nong Zhuang. The Pyang refer to themselves as ''^B2'' or ''^C1-A'', but are referred to as ''^C1'' by the surrounding Yang Zhuang people (Liao 2016:315).

Distribution

Pyang Zhuang is spoken in the following locations of Guangxi, China (Liao 2016:315-316). *Fuping Village 扶平村, Jingde Town 敬德镇,

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, Guangxi **Tuoxin 驮信村 (' in Pyang Zhuang) *Ronghua Township 荣华乡,

, Guangxi *Kuixu Township 魁圩乡,

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, Guangxi

Classification

Pyang Zhuang may be closely related to the

Nong Zhuang language Nong Zhuang () is a Tai language spoken mainly in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China. In Wenshan Prefecture, it is spoken in Yanshan, Guangnan, Wenshan, Maguan, Funing, Xichou, and Malipo counties, and also in Honghe Prefecture and Vietnam. The he ...

of Yunnan. Innovations shared between Pyang Zhuang and Nong Zhuang include the following (Liao 2016:316). *

Proto-Tai Proto-Tai is the reconstructed proto-language (common ancestor) of all the Tai languages, including modern Lao, Shan, Tai Lü, Tai Dam, Ahom, Northern Thai, Standard Thai, Bouyei, and Zhuang. The Proto-Tai language is not directly attested ...

*kr-(Pittayaporn 2009:143); *xr- in Li (1977:233) > tɕʰ- (as opposed to *kr- > kʰj- in Yang Zhuang, and *kr- > h- in Southwestern Tai). Examples include ''tɕʰaː^A1-A'' 'to seek' and ''tɕʰɔk^DS1-A'' 'six'. *''hɔk^DS1-A'' 'to do' is only found in Pyang Zhuang and Nong Zhuang (as opposed to ''hat^DS1-A'' 'to do' in Yang Zhuang, and ''het^DS1-A'' 'to do' in Zuojiang Zhuang and

Isan Northeast Thailand or Isan (Isan/ th, อีสาน, ; lo, ອີສານ; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pali ''īsānna'' or Sanskrit ईशान्य ''īśānya'' "northeast") consists of 20 provin ...

References

*Liao Hanbo. 2016. ''Tonal development of Tai languages''. M.A. dissertation. Chiang Mai: Payap University. Tai languages {{TaiKadai-lang-stub