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What is Zhuang and where is it spoken?

Zhuang (Vahcuengh) is a Tai-Kadai language continuum spoken by around 16 million Zhuang people, mostly in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China. Northern and Southern Zhuang are usually treated as separate languages with limited mutual intelligibility. The standard literary form is based on the Wuming variety of Northern Zhuang.

What scripts does Zhuang use?

Two main scripts are used today: Sawndip (literally 'immature characters'), a logographic system based on Chinese characters that has been used for over a millennium for ritual and folk literature, and the official Latin-based Cuengh script introduced in 1957 and simplified in 1982. Cuengh uses standard Latin letters plus the original tone letters j, x, q, h, z; the 1982 reform replaced earlier Cyrillic-style letters with these forms.