Editing Zhuang languages (section)

=== Southern Zhuang ===
{{Main|Central Tai languages}}
Southern Zhuang dialects are spoken south of the [[Yong River (Guangxi)|Yong River]], with 4,232,000 speakers<ref name="ZhangWei" /><ref name="Zhang" /> ({{ISO 639|ccy|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|ccy}}] prior to 2007):
* '''Yongnan''' 邕南 (1,466,000 speakers): South [[Yongning District|Yongning]], Central and North [[Fusui County|Fusui]], [[Long'an County|Long'an]], [[Jinzhou]], Shangse, [[Chongzuo]] areas ({{ISO 639|zyn|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zyn}}])
* '''Zuojiang''' 左江 (1,384,000 speakers): [[Longzhou County|Longzhou]] (Longjin), [[Daxin County|Daxin]], [[Tiandeng County|Tiandeng]], [[Ningming County|Ningming]]; [[Zuojiang River]] basin area ({{ISO 639|zzj|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zzj}}])
* '''Dejing''' 得靖 (979,000 speakers): [[Jingxi, Guangxi|Jingxi]], [[Debao County|Debao]], Mubian, [[Napo County|Napo]].  Jackson, Jackson and Lau (2012) distinguished two [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually unintelligible]] [[Variety (linguistics)|varieties]]: [[Yang Zhuang language|Yang Zhuang]] ({{ISO 639|zyg|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zyg}}]) and [[Min Zhuang language|Min Zhuang]] ({{ISO 639|zgm|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zgm}}])<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Bruce |last2=Jackson |first2=Andy |last3=Lau |first3=Shuh Huey |year=2012 |title=A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Dejing Zhuang Dialect Area |url=http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/50901 |series=SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-036}}.</ref>
* '''Yanguang''' 硯廣 ([[Nong Zhuang language|Nong Zhuang]]; 308,000 speakers): South [[Guangnan County|Guangnan]] ([[Yunnan]]), [[Yanshan District|Yanshan]] area ({{ISO 639|zhn|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zhn}}])
* '''Wenma''' 文麻 ([[Dai Zhuang language|Dai Zhuang]]; 95,000 speakers): [[Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture|Wenshan]] ([[Yunnan]]), [[Malipo County|Malipo]], Guibian ({{ISO 639|zhd|link=yes}} [{{ethnolink|zhd}}])

The [[Tày language|Tày]] and [[Nùng language|Nùng]] language complex in Vietnam is also considered one of the varieties of Central Tai and shares a high [[mutual intelligibility]] with Wenshan Dai and other Southern Zhuang dialects in [[Guangxi]]. The Nùng An language has a mixture of Northern and Central Tai features.

==== Recently described varieties ====
Johnson (2011) distinguishes four distinct Zhuang languages in [[Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture|Wenshan Prefecture]], [[Yunnan]]: [[Nong Zhuang language|Nong Zhuang]], [[Yei Zhuang language|Yei Zhuang]], [[Dai Zhuang language|Dai Zhuang]], and [[Min Zhuang language|Min Zhuang]], all of which are Southern Zhuang varieties except for Yei Zhuang, which is Northern Zhuang.<ref>{{harvp|Johnson|2010}}</ref> [[Min Zhuang language|Min Zhuang]] is a recently discovered Southern Zhuang variety that has never been described previous to Johnson (2011). (''See also [[Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture#Ethnic groups]]'')

[[Pyang Zhuang language|Pyang Zhuang]] and [[Myang Zhuang language|Myang Zhuang]] are recently described Southern Zhuang (Central Tai) languages spoken in [[Debao County]], Guangxi, China.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Language Name and Locationː Pyang Zhuang (Fuping), China [Not on Ethnologue] |url=http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Zhuang-Fuping.htm |url-status=dead |website=lingweb.eva.mpg.de |access-date=2014-02-09 |archive-date=2014-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223011156/http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Zhuang-Fuping.htm }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Liao |first=Hanbo |title=Tonal Development of Tai Languages |date=2016 |degree=M.A. |publisher=Payap University |language=en}}</ref>