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'Qiangic' is a language family of northeastern Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Tibet and some other western areas of China.

Contents

Family division

See also

External links

Bibliography

Family division

Qiangic consists of 12 languages:
: 1. 'Jiarong' (a.k.a. rGyal-rong)
: A. Qiang
::: 2. 'Northern Qiang'
::: 3. 'Southern Qiang'
: 4. 'Ergong'
: 5. 'Zaba'
: 6. 'Guichong'
: 7. 'Muya'
: 8. 'Ersu' (a.k.a. Tosu)
: 9. 'Choyo'
: 10. 'Narmuyi'
: 11. 'Shixing'
: 12. 'Pumi' (a.k.a. Primi)
: 13. 'Tangut' (disputed)

See also

★ Tibeto-Burman languages

External links

★ Ethnologue: Qiangic

★ Ethnologue: Tangut-Qiang

★ Site on Qiangic languages (French and Chinese)

Bibliography

★ Bradley, David. (1997). Tibeto-Burman languages and classification. In D. Bradley (Ed.), ''Papers in South East Asian linguistics: Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas'' (No. 14, pp. 1-71). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

★ Sun, Hongkai. (1983). The nationality languages in the six valleys and their language branches. ''Yunnan Minzuxuebao'', ''3'', 99-273. (Written in Chinese).