Nung language (Tai)

Nung
Spoken in Vietnam
Native speakers 856,000  (1999)
Language family
Tai–Kadai
  • Tai
    • Wenma
      • Nung
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nut

Nung (Nùng in Vietnamese) is a Tai–Kadai language spoken mostly in Cao Bằng, and Lang Son provinces in Vietnam. It is also known as Bu-Nong, Highland Nung, Nong, Tai Nung, Tay, and Tày Nùng. It should be confused with neither the Tibeto-Burman language also called Nung, nor with Yue Chinese or various closely related Zhuang languages, which are also called Nung.

In the 1999 census, it had about 850,000 speakers.

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