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Wenshan Nong Zhuang Stories
Yunnan Zhuang Folktale Collection (PDF Version)
Yunnan Zhuang Folktale Collection (Kindle MOBI ebook)
Download394.16 KBNong Zhuang Transition Primer (Guangnan County Zhetu District Nong Zhuang) Double-sided A4 booklet for printing
Nong Zhuang Transition Primer (Guangnan County Zhetu District Nong Zhuang)
01 Du Sam and Du Ni (with IPA transcription)
“Du Sam and Du Ni” (Android App for reading Zhuang)
Download5.87 MB02 Three Brothers (with IPA transcription)
"The Three Brothers" (Android App for Reading Zhuang)
Download10.87 MB03 Buy a Coffin and Prepare! (with IPA transcription)
04 Big Brother and Little Brother (with IPA transcription)
05 The Little Boat (with IPA transcription)
Wenshan Nong Zhuang Stories
Southern Zhuang Dialect, Yan-Guang Verncular,
as spoken in Xichou County and Zhetu District of Guangnan County
More than half of the Zhuang people of Wenshan Prefecture speak the Nong Southern Zhuang dialect, also know as the Yan-Guang Verncular of Southern Zhuang. This book uses the Zhuang orthography approved by the national government of China. Southern Zhuang spellings are according to the two volume primer entitled Sw Doakgoanq Nenhjih Daih’aet Doag approved by the Yunnan Province Middle and Elementary School Curriculum Approval Committee (published by the Yunnan Nationalities Press in 2006.)
We are grateful to to Nong Zhuang storytellers Mr. Zhang Tinghui and Mr. Lu Cheng. The Zhuang transcription of these stories as appears in the Yunnan Nationalities Press published book (forthcoming) has been revised by Professor Lu Baocheng of Yunnan Nationalities University to conform more closely to the Chinese translation of the stories. Here we present the original verbatim transcriptions of the stories in Zhuang, along with the audio files, for those who would like to study the oral Zhuang discourse features and folkstory genre.

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