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The Rgyalrongic languages (also rendered ''Jiarongic''), constitute a branch of the Qiangic languages of Sino-Tibetan,〔James Matisoff, 2004. ("Brightening" and the place of Xixia (Tangut) in the Qiangic subgroup of Tibeto-Burman )〕 although Randy LaPolla (2003) proposes that it may be part of a larger Rung languages group. They are spoken in Sichuan in China, mainly in the autonomous Tibetan and Qiang prefectures of Karmdzes and Rngaba. These languages are distinguished by their conservative morphology and their phonological archaisms, which make them valuable for historical linguistics. ==Classification== The Rgyalrongic languages share several features, notably in verbal morphology, and are classified into three groups: *Khroskyabs (formerly known as ''Lavrung'') *the Horpa language *the Rgyalrong languages The Rgyalrong languages in turn constitute four mutually unintelligible varieties: Eastern Rgyalrong or Situ, Japhug, Tshobdun, and Zbu. Khroskyabs and Horpa are classified by Lin 1993 as a "western dialect" of Rgyalrong, along with Eastern Rgyalrong and the "northwestern dialect" (Japhug, Tshobdun, and Zbu). Otherwise, the scholarly consensus deems the distance between Khroskyabs, Horpa, and the Rgyalrong cluster is greater than that between the Rgyalrung languages. For example, ''Ethnologue'' reports 75% lexical similarity between Situ and Japhug, 60% between Japhug and Tshobdun, but only 13% between Situ and Horpa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rgyalrongic languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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