El chuang o zhuang (chuan: cueŋь/cuengh; chino: 壮语; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) es usado por el pueblo zhuang de la República Popular China. La mayoría vive en Guangxi, en la Región Autónoma de Zhuang, en la que es lengua oficial. El uso de la lengua está disminuyendo con rapidez ya que los hablantes están adoptando el chino han. El chuan estandarizado está basado en el dialecto del condado de Wuming (武鸣县). El bouyei, considerado como una lengua separada en China, es en realidad un estándar ligeramente distinto del chuan, usado al otro lado de la frontera en la provincia de Guizhou. Existe un continuo dialectal entre el chuan y el bouyei. El chuan es una lengua tonal. Tiene seis tonos en sílabas abiertas: Tiene dos tonos, alto y bajo, en sílabas cerradas.

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The Zhuang languages (autonym: Vahcuengh (pre-1982: Vaƅcueŋƅ, Sawndip: 話僮), from vah 'language' and Cuengh 'Zhuang'; simplified Chinese: 壮语; traditional Chinese: 壯語; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) are any of more than a dozen Tai languages spoken by the Zhuang people of southern China in the province of Guangxi and adjacent parts of Yunnan and Guangdong. The Zhuang languages do not form a monophyletic linguistic unit, as northern and southern Zhuang languages are more closely related to other Tai languages than to each other. Northern Zhuang languages form a dialect continuum with Tai varieties across the provincial border in Guizhou, which are designated as Bouyei, whereas Southern Zhuang languages form another dialect continuum with Nung, Tay and Caolan in Vietnam.Standard Zhuang is based on the northern Zhuang dialect of Wuming. The Tai languages are believed to have been originally spoken in what is now southern China, with speakers of the Southwestern Tai languages (which include Thai, Lao and Shan) having emigrated in the face of Chinese expansion.Noting that both the Zhuang and Thai peoples have the same exonym for the Vietnamese, kɛɛuA1, from the Chinese commandery of Jiaozhi in northern Vietnam, Jerold A. Edmondson posited that the split between Zhuang and the Southwestern Tai languages happened no earlier than the founding of Jiaozhi in 112 BC. He also argues that the departure of the Thai from southern China must predate the 5th century AD, when the Tai who remained in China began to take family names.

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