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Youjiang Zhuang

Language spoken in Tiandong County, China

Youjiang Zhuang
Gangjdoj
Geographic distribution of Youjiang Zhuang
Native to	China
Region	Guangxi
Native speakers	870,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Kra–Dai Tai Northern Tai (Northern Zhuang) Youjiang Zhuang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zyj
Glottolog	youj1238

Youjiang Zhuang, named after the Youjiang RiverinGuangxi, China, is a Northern TaiorZhuang Language spoken in Tiandong County, Tianyang District, and parts of the Youjiang DistrictinBaise, Guangxi.

Native speakers refer to the language as Gangjdoj, which means "local language".

André-Georges Haudricourt in 1956 included the language of Tianzhou, the county seat of Tianyang, under Dioi, his name for Northern Zhuang.^[2]

Based on data from the 1950s Guangxi Zhuang language survey, Tiandong, Tianyang and a suburb of Baise City were grouped together. This grouping was sometimes called Tianyangese (田阳音系). In the 1999 A Study of Zhuang Dialects this group was referred to as the Youjiang language (右江土语),^[3] and in 2007 Youjiang Zhuang was added as a separate language to Ethnologue.^[1]

Youjiang Zhuang has 10 tones, and can be considered as having 20 initials and 83 finals, though some speakers pronounce the initials /ʔb/ and /ʔd/as/m/ and /n/ respectively.^[4]

Youjiang Zhuang has two main writing systems, characters and romanization.^{[citation needed]}

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