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
Yongning County (, Xiao'erjing: يٌنِئٍ ثِيًا) is a county of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, bordering Inner Mongolia to the wes ...
, or Yongning North.
As an areal group Yongbei includes ''
Wuming'' dialect, the basis of
Standard Zhuang
Standard Zhuang ( autonym: , , (pre-1982: ; Sawndip: ); ) is the official standardized form of the Zhuang languages, which are a branch of the Northern Tai languages. Its pronunciation is based on that of the Yongbei Zhuang dialect of Shuang ...
. However, Wuming falls in the
Yongnan-Wuming Zhuang comparative group.
References
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