Hongshui He Zhuang dialect intelligibility survey

Abstract

This intelligibility survey of Zhuang speech varieties spoken in the Hongshui He area of Guangxi was carried out as a cooperative project by SIL East Asia Group and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Minority Language Commission. The Hongshui He region is home to around 2.5 million Zhuang speakers. In conducting the survey, the primary tools used were Recorded Text Tests and word list comparisons. The results of this survey show that Hongshui He Zhuang can be divided into three dialects. Proposed centres of communication for each of these dialects are: Gaoling township, Du’an county; Qianjiang township, Xingbin district; and Yunjiang township, Xiangzhou county.

Keywords: sociolinguistics, dialectology, Zhuang, Hongshui He vernacular

Andy Castro,Bruce Hansen,Hongshui He Zhuang dialect intelligibility survey [OL]（2010）http://www.sil.org/silesr/2010/silesr2010-025.pdf