Khalong Tibetan (or ''Khalung''; also known as Rdo or Rdoskad
) is a
Tibetic language
The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries).Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descripti ...
of
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of t ...
, China, once considered a dialect of
Khams. It is spoken in
Zamtang County
Zamthang County or Ndzamthang County (), or Rangtang County () is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering on the Banma County of Qinghai Province to the north. It is one of 13 counties under the administration of and lies t ...
of
Ngawa Prefecture. Phonological and grammatical details reflect a
Showu (Gyarong) substrate.
[Tournadre, Nicolas (2005).]
L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes
" ''Lalies'', 2005, n°25, p. 7–56.
Distribution
It is spoken at Khalung Village (卡龙村) of Bugrje Township (吾依乡), and Rkamda’ (岗木达), Mesmda’ (明达), and Bragmgo (章光) villages of Rkamda’ Township (岗木达乡) along the lower Rdokhog River (杜科河) of central
Dzamthang County
Zamthang County or Ndzamthang County (), or Rangtang County () is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering on the Banma County of Qinghai Province to the north. It is one of 13 counties under the administration of and lies t ...
(壤塘县) in
Rngaba Prefecture
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (; Qiang: ; ), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an ar ...
(阿坝州). The closely related
Gserpa language
Gserpa ( Wylie: ''gser pa''; Chinese: 色尔坝; also ''Gserskad'') is an eastern Tibetic language of Sichuan. It is spoken by a few hundred or thousand people in Sêrba (Tibetan:གསེར་པ་; Wylie: gser pa; Tibetan pinyin: Sêrba; C ...
is spoken just to the west of the Khalong-speaking area.
[Sun, Jackson T.-S. 2021. ]
Gser-Rdo: A New Tibetic Language Across the Rngaba-Dkarmdzes Border
'.
References
Bibliography
*T-S. Sun Jackson, 2002. "Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan", ''Communication pre'sente'e au 8th Himalayan Symposium'', Universite' de Berne, 19–22 September.
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