Gyalrong languages

Gyalrong
East Gyalrongic
Native toChina
RegionSichuan
Native speakers
(83,000 cited 1999)[1]
Dialects
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3jya
Glottologcore1262
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]

  1. ^ Gyalrong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Lai, Yunfan; Gong, Xun; Gates, Jesse P.; Jacques, Guillaume (2020-12-01). "Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language". Folia Linguistica. 54 (s41–s1). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 171–203. doi:10.1515/flih-2020-0006. ISSN 1614-7308.