Zhuàng 壯 (Zhuàngyǔ 壯語) is the language (or, more properly, a group of languages) spoken by the largest minority group in the People’s Republic of China, larger than Tibetan, Uyghur, and Mongol, with approximately 18 million speakers and semi-speakers, as projected from a population growth of 16.7% for minority people in China between 1990 and 2000. In the 1990 gover…