Dai Zhuang language

Dai Zhuang
Wen-Ma Southern Zhuang
Native to China
Region Wenshan Prefecture
Native speakers
 100,000 (2008)[1]
Tai–Kadai

  • Tai

    • Zuojiang–Southwest
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
zhd – Dai Zhuang
tyl – Thu Lao (duplicate code)
Glottolog daiz1235[3]

Dai Zhuang is a Tai language spoken in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China, in Yanshan, Wenshan, Maguan, Malipo, Guangnan counties. It is also spoken in Honghe Prefecture and Vietnam. The largest concentrations are in Wenshan (50% of total Zhuang population) and Yanshan (20% of total Zhuang population) counties (Johnson 2011b).

Names

Below are various names (both autonyms and exonyms) for speakers of Dai Zhuang (Johnson 2011a:43).

Subdivisions and distribution

Johnson (2011b) splits Dai Zhuang into 4 dialects according to tonal splitting patterns: Northern, Central, Southern, and Northeastern. They roughly correspond with the following ethnic subdivisions (Johnson 2011a).

In Vietnam, Thu Lao (autonym: La Hừ, meaning 'black earth') is spoken in the following 7 villages (Nguyễn 2014:14).[4]

Jerold Edmondson describes Thu Lao as a Central Tai language with about 200 speakers that retains voiced initial consonants in low tones, like Tay of Trùng Khánh District, Cao Bằng Province.[5]

Phonology

Many Dai Zhuang dialects preserve voiced stops inherited from Proto-Tai (L-Thongkum 1997). L-Thongkum calls the dialects with the voiced stops "Dai Tho," and the dialects without any voiced stops "Tai Tho."

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dai Zhuang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Thu Lao (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wenma–Southwestern Tai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dai Zhuang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Nguyễn Hùng Mạnh. 2014. Tri thúc dân gian trong việc bao vệ rừng thiêng, rừng đầu nguồn của người Thu Lao (Xã Tả Gia Khâu, Huyện Mường Khương, Tỉnh Lào Cai). Nhà xuất bản văn hóa thông tin. ISBN 978-604-50-1511-7
  5. ↑ http://www.uta.edu/faculty/jerry/research/map.html

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