International Joint Survey of the rGyalrongic Languages

嘉绒语和嘉绒格语是藏缅语族不同语族的连接语，它们代表了藏缅语族不同语族的语法特征，是藏缅语族史研究中不可或缺的研究对象。本研究旨在全面描述吉拉龙方言和吉拉龙语的基本音义和词法句法，更精确地重建原吉拉龙语的形体，并阐述吉拉龙语的发生关系和亚分类。我们已经成功地收集了81个rGyalrongic语言的400/1200个词汇和200个基本句子。2013年7月后，这些结果将通过国家民族学博物馆的网站向公众开放。本文论证了北京故宫博物院藏《传梵一语》中的藏文文字代表嘉绒语。

The rGyalrong and rGyalrongic languages are so-called link-languages which represent several grammatical features found in different sub-groups of Tibeto-Burman(TB) family, and are regarded as an indispensable research target for the TB history. This research project aimed at describing thoroughly the basic gloss and morphosyntax of the rGylarong dialects and rGyalrongic languages, reconstructing the proto-rGyalrong shapes more precisely and elaborating upon the genetic relations and sub-classification of the TB languages. We have succeeded in collecting 400/1200 lexical items and 200 basic sentences for 81 rGyalrongic languages. Those results will be open to the general public through the National Museum of Ethnology’s website after July 2013. In this connection, we have demonstrated that the Tibetan characters written in the Chuan-fan I-yu kept at the Palace Museum at Beijing represent rGyalrong language.