Etymology

rGyalrong

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Today it means: Any of a group of rGyalrongic languages in the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken in western Sichuan, China. Full definition →

Tibetan རྒྱལ་རོང
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  1. Tibetan · derived fromརྒྱལ་རོང
  2. English todayrGyalrong

From the capitalised variant of the Wylie transliteration of Tibetan རྒྱལ་རོང (rgyal rong), the Tibetan name for the speakers of these languages.

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