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Buyang (Chinese: 布央语) is a Tai–Kadai language spoken in Guangnan and Funing counties Yunnan Province China by the Buyang people. It is important to the reconstruction of Austro-Tai as it retains the disyllabic roots characteristic of Austronesian languages. Examples are /matɛ́/ to die /matá/ eye /qaðù/ head and /maðû/ eight. (See Austro-Tai for proposed connections.)The Buyang language was only recently discovered in 1990 by Chinese linguist Liang Min.