Chadong language

Chadong
Spoken in	China
Region	Northern Guangxi
Native speakers	20,000  (2007)
Language family	Tai–Kadai Kam–Sui Chadong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cdy

The Chadong language (also called Chaodong) is a Kam–Sui language spoken mainly in Chadong Township, Lingui County, Guilin, northeastern Guangxi, China.^[1] 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.

According to inscriptions from the Ming dynasty, Chadong speakers originally came from Qingyuanfu, Nandan, Guangxi, which is located further to the west. They were originally sent to the Guilin area during the Yuan Dynasty in order to suppress local Zhuang and Yao rebellions.

References

1. ^ 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 0203641876. 

External links

• Chadong word list from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database