Chadong language

Chadong
Native toChina
RegionNorthern Guangxi
Native speakers
20,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3cdy
Glottologchad1240

The Chadong language (also called Chaodong, Chinese: 茶洞語) is a Kam–Sui language spoken mainly in Chadong Township, Lingui County, Guilin, northeastern Guangxi, China.[2] It is most closely related to the Maonan language. Chadong has only been recently described by Chinese linguist Jinfang Li in the 1990s and 2000s.

Speakers are classified by the Chinese government as ethnic Han.[2]

  1. ^ Chadong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Diller, Anthony; Edmondson, Jerold; Luo, Yongxian, eds. (2008). "Chapter 21: Chadong, a Newly-Discovered Kam–Sui Language in Northern Guangxi". The Tai–Kadai Languages. Routledge. pp. 596–620. ISBN 978-0-203-64187-3.