Rgyalrongic languages

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The Rgyalrong (Tibetan transcription), Gyarung, or Jiarong (嘉绒, Chinese transcription) languages are a small cluster of Tibeto-Burman languages. They are of uncertain affiliation, but share certain commonalities with the Qiangic languages.

They are Gyarung proper, consisting of three varieties of low mutual intelligibility (Situ, Chabao, and Sidaba), Lavrung (aka Guanyinqiao), and Horpa (aka Ergong, aka Daofu, with Shangzhai a dialect).

Rgyalrongic is spoken in the province of Sichuan in the People's Republic of China, mainly in the autonomous Tibetan/Qiang prefectures of Kar-mdzes (Garzê 甘孜) and Rnga-ba (Ngawa 阿坝). These languages are distinguished by their morphological complexity, and their archaisms. They are considered by linguists to be the living fossils of the Sino-Tibetan languages.

Conjugation of a verb whose object is in the third person.

« To eat bread » (bread = qɤjɣi)

aʑo qɤjɣi ndzi-a : I will eat bread

nɤʑo qɤjɣi tɯ-ndze : You will ...

ɯʑo qɤjɣi ndze : He will ...

tɕiʑo qɤjɣi ndzá-tɕi : We two will ...

ndʑiʑo qɤjɣi tɯ-ndzá-ndʑi : You two will ...

ʑɤni qɤjɣi ndzá-ndʑi : They two will ...

iʑo qɤjɣi ndza-j : We will ...

qɤjɣi tɯ-ndzá-nɯ : You will ...

ʑara qɤjɣi ndzá-nɯ : They will ...

See also

• Qiangic languages

References

• Jacques, Guillaume 向柏霖 (2008). 嘉絨語研究 Jiarongyu yanjiu. [Study of the Rgyalrong Language] (中國新發現語言研究叢書) Zhongguo xin faxian yuyan yanjiu congshu). 民族出版社 Minzu Chubanshe.

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