Southern Qiang | |
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Region | Sichuan Province |
Ethnicity | Qiang people |
Native speakers | (81,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | qxs |
Glottolog | sout2728 |
ELP | Southern Qiang |
Southern Qiang is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Qiangic branch spoken by approximately 81,300 people along the Minjiang (Chinese: 岷江) river in Sichuan Province, China.
Southern Qiang dialects preserve archaic pronoun flexions, while they have disappeared in Northern Qiang.[2] Unlike its close relative Northern Qiang, Southern Qiang is a tonal language.