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Maonan
Native to: China
Region: Northern Guangxi, Southern Guizhou
Ethnicity: 107,000 (2000)
Native speakers: 30,000 (2005)
Language family: Kra–Dai

is a Kam–Sui language spoken mainly in China by the Maonan people, specifically in northern Guangxi and southern Guizhou. Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, Hechi, northern Guangxi, holds a concentrated number of speakers.

Approximately half of all Maonan people are capable of speaking Maonan. In addition to this, many Maonan also speak Chinese or a Zhuang language. About 1/3 of all people who self-identify as Maonan are concentrated in the southern Guizhou province. They speak a mutually unintelligible dialect commonly called Yanghuang, which is more common known as the Then language in Western literature. The Maonan do not have a writing system.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maonan_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maonan_people

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