Yong-Quan Xiang

Yong–Quan Xiang
Native to China
Region Hunan, Guangxi
Native speakers
6.5 million
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog yong1285[1]
Yong-Quan Xiang is in green. The white dots are Yongzhou and Quanzhou County.

Yong–Quan Xiang (永全片) is a cluster of Xiang dialects spoken in Guilin and southern Hunan that do not fit into the traditional New XiangOld Xiang dichotomy. They are geographically adjacent to the Old Xiang dialects that they were traditionally grouped with.

A representative dialect is Qiyang.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yong-Quan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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