Qiang languages

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The Qiang languages are two Qiangic languages, Northern Qiang and Southern Qiang, of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken in Sichuan Province and Tibet (China). They are often considered "dialects" of a single language (i.e. the Qiang language); however, the two vernaculars, although closely related, are divergent enough to be considered separate languages. Northern Qiang is not a tonal language while Southern Qiang is tonal.

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  • 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.
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