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Khroskyabs language

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Native to
  
China

Native speakers
  
50,000 (1993)

Glottolog
  
guan1266

Region
  
Sichuan

ISO 639-3
  
jiq

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Qiangic Rgyalrongic Khroskyabs

Khroskyabs or Lavrung (native name: bósʁæi "Tibetan language", Chinese: 绰斯甲语; pinyin: Chuòsījiǎ yǔ) is a Rgyalrongic language of China. It is called Guanyinqiao in Ethnologue after a town in western Sichuan where one dialect of the language is spoken, Thugsrje Chenbo (Wylie: thugs rje chen bo). It has been referred to as Lavrung in previous publications.

Dialects

Dialects of Khroskyabs include Wobzi (spoken in Jinchuan County), Thugsrje Chenbo, ‘Brongrdzong and Njorogs (Yèlóng 业隆).

References

Khroskyabs language Wikipedia