Gyalrong | |
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East Gyalrongic | |
Native to | China |
Region | Sichuan |
Native speakers | (83,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Dialects | |
Tibetan script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | jya |
Glottolog | core1262 |
Map of Gyalrong languages |
Gyalrong or rGyalrong (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང, Wylie: rgyal rong, THL: gyalrong), also rendered Jiarong (simplified Chinese: 嘉绒语; traditional Chinese: 嘉絨語; pinyin: Jiāróngyǔ), or sometimes Gyarung, is a subbranch of the Gyalrongic languages spoken by the Gyalrong people in Western Sichuan, China. Lai et al. (2020) refer to this group of languages as East Gyalrongic.[2]