rGyalrong

English

Alternative forms

• Rgyalrong, Gyalrong
• rGyalrung, Rgyalrung, Gyalrung
• rGyarong, Rgyarong, Gyarong
• Jiarong, Jyarung

Etymology

From the capitalised variant of the Wylie transliteration of Tibetan རྒྱལ་རོང (rgyal rong), the Tibetan name for the speakers of these languages.

Proper noun

rGyalrong

1. Any of a group of rGyalrongic languages in the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken in western Sichuan, China.

Derived terms

• rGyalrongic, rGyalronic

Translations

language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘉絨語／嘉绒语 (zh) (jiāróngyǔ)

• Japanese: ギャロン語 (Gyaron-go)
• Portuguese: língua rgyalrong
• Swahili: Kijiarong
• Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང (rgyal rong)