This language is considered by Chinese linguists to be the living fossil of the Proto-Sino-Tibetan.

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Gyalrong
Native to: China
Region: Sichuan
Native speakers: 83,000 (1999)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan

Gyalrong or rGyalrong (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང, Wylie: rgyal rong, THL: gyalrong), also rendered Jiarong (simplified Chinese: 嘉绒语; traditional Chinese: 嘉毧語; pinyin: jiāróng yǔ), or sometimes Gyarung, is a subbranch of the Gyalrongic languages spoken by the Gyalrong people in Western Sichuan, China.

The name Gyalrong is an abbreviation of Tibetan ཤར་རྒྱལ་མོ་ཚ་བ་རོང, shar rgyal-mo tsha-ba rong “Eastern Queen’s Fever Ravine”, a historical region of Kham now mostly located inside Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan. This Tibetan word is transcribed in Chinese as 嘉绒 or 嘉戎 or 嘉荣, jiāróng. It is pronounced [rɟɑroŋ] by speakers of Situ. It is a place-name and is not used by the people to designate their own language. The autonym is pronounced [kəru] in Situ and [kɯrɯ] in Japhug. Gyalrong speakers were previously classified as an independent ethnicity but were merged into the Tibetan ethnicity by the Chinese government in 1954.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyalrong_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyalrongic_languages
https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_gyc
https://htq.minpaku.ac.jp/databases/rGyalrong/

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