Tai-Kadai · ISO 639-3 zgn
Guibian Zhuang Language
Guibian Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country.
Where Guibian Zhuang is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Guibian Zhuang
Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Kam-Tai
- Daic-Beic
- Daic
- Northern Daic-Sek
- Northern Daic
- Northern Tai
- Yei Zhuang
- Guibian Zhuang
Related languages
About the Guibian Zhuang language
Guibian Zhuang is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 484th most spoken language in the world — just behind Trinidadian Creole English (1.0 million) and ahead of South Ndebele (900,000). It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family and, more precisely, to the Yei Zhuang group within the Daic-Beic branch.
Where is Guibian Zhuang spoken?
Guibian Zhuang is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.0 million).
Guibian Zhuang is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Bouyei, Eastern Hongshuihe Zhuang, Yongbei Zhuang, Thai, Northeastern Thai, Northern Thai and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 zgn.
Frequently asked questions about Guibian Zhuang
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.