West Gyalrongic languages: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Branch of the QiangicGyalrongic languages of Sino-Tibetan}}

| name = West Gyalrongic

| altname =

| region = [[China]]

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = "[[Qiangic languages|Qiangic]]"

| fam3 = [[Gyalrongic languages|Gyalrongic]]

| child1 = [[Khroskyabs language|Khroskyabs]]

| child2 = [[Horpa language|Horpa]] (Stau)

| child3 = †[[Tangut language|Tangut]]

| glotto = rgya1241west2973

| ancestor =

| glottonamenotes =

The '''West Gyalrongic languages''' constitute a group of [[Gyalrongic languages]]. On the basis of both morphological and lexical evidence, Lai et al. (2020) addsadd the extinct [[Tangut language]] to West Gyalrongic.<ref name="Lai2020">{{cite journal|last=Lai|first=Yunfan|last2=Gong|first2=Xun|last3=Gates|first3=Jesse P.|last4=Jacques|first4=Guillaume|title=Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language|journal=Folia Linguistica|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH|volume=54|issue=s41-s1|date=2020-12-01|issn=1614-7308|doi=10.1515/flih-2020-0006|pages=171–203}}</ref> Beaudouin (2023) through a morphosyntactic analysis based on phonetic correspondences, shows that Tangut should be included within the Horpa languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Beaudouin |first=Mathieu |date=2023-09-14 |title=Tangut and Horpa languages: Some shared morphosyntactic features |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lali.00142.bea |journal=Language and Linguistics |language=en |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=611–673 |doi=10.1075/lali.00142.bea |issn=1606-822X}}</ref>

*[[Horpa language|Horpa]] (or ''Stau'')

**†[[Tangut language|Tangut]]

Sagart et al. (2019) estimate that West and East Gyalrongic had diverged from each other about 3,000 years before present.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Sagart|given1=Laurent|author1-link=Laurent Sagart|surname2=Jacques|given2=Guillaume|author2-link=Guillaume Jacques|surname3=Lai|given3=Yunfan|surname4=Ryder|given4=Robin|surname5=Thouzeau|given5=Valentin|surname6=Greenhill|given6=Simon J.|author6-link=Simon J. Greenhill|surname7=List|given7=Johann-Mattis|author7-link=Johann-Mattis List|title=Dated language phylogenies shed light on the history of Sino-Tibetan|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=116|issue=21|pages=10317–10322|year=2019|doi=10.1073/pnas.1817972116|doi-access=free|pmid=31061123|pmc=6534992|lay-url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190506151822.htm|lay-source=ScienceDaily|lay-date=May 6, 2019|postscript=.}}</ref>

Although Tangut is most commonly associated with [[Yinchuan]], the capital of the [[Tangut Empire]], Zhoushan (周山, Zhōushān) in [[Jinchuan County]] (Chinese: 金川縣 Jīnchuān Xiàn;, [[Written Tibetan]]: ''Chuchen),''; roughly located between the territories of [[Khroskyabs language|Khroskyabs]] and [[Situ language|Situ]] 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 western [[Sichuan]].<ref name="Lai2020"/>