Tai-Kadai · ISO 639-3 zyb
Yongbei Zhuang Language
Yongbei Zhuang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Han scripts.
Where Yongbei Zhuang is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Yongbei Zhuang
Language family
- Tai-Kadai
- Kam-Tai
- Daic-Beic
- Daic
- Northern Daic-Sek
- Northern Daic
- Yongnan-Yongbei
- Yongbei Zhuang
Writing system
Latin and Han scripts
Related languages
About the Yongbei Zhuang language
Yongbei Zhuang is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 319th most spoken language in the world — just behind Cameroon Pidgin (2.0 million) and ahead of Ahirani (1.9 million). It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family and, more precisely, to the Yongnan-Yongbei group within the Daic-Beic branch.
Where is Yongbei Zhuang spoken?
Yongbei Zhuang is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (2.0 million).
Yongbei Zhuang is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Yongbei Zhuang is written in the Latin and Han scripts. 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, Guibian Zhuang, Thai, Northeastern Thai, Northern Thai and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 zyb.
Frequently asked questions about Yongbei 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.