| West Gyalrongic | |
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| Geographic distribution | China |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Glottolog | west2973 (West Gyalrongic) |
TheWest Gyalrongic languages constitute a group ofGyalrongic languages. On the basis of both morphological and lexical evidence, Lai et al. (2020) add the extinctTangut language to West Gyalrongic.[1] Beaudouin (2023) through a morphosyntactic analysis based on phonetic correspondences, shows that Tangut should be included within the Horpa languages.[2]
Sagart et al. (2019) estimate that West and East Gyalrongic had diverged from each other about 3,000 years before present.[3]
Although Tangut is most commonly associated withYinchuan, the capital of theTangut Empire, Zhoushan (周山, Zhōushān) inJinchuan County (Chinese: 金川縣 Jīnchuān Xiàn,Written Tibetan:Chuchen; roughly located between the territories ofKhroskyabs andSitu speakers today) had a historically attested population of Tangut people in 945 AD. As a result, based on both historiographical and linguistic evidence, Lai et al. (2020) place the ultimate homeland of the Tangut in present-day westernSichuan.[1]
However, the Tangut were already rulers of theDingnan Jiedushi from 881AD, which indicates another scenario, as they could not migrate to a place they were already situated.
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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