Rma

Rma or Qiang proper is spoken in northwestern Sichuan. The name Rma means 'person' or 'people', and is cognate with Proto-rGyalrong *t.rmi, also meaning 'person.'

Sources

Sims, Nathaniel. 2016. Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of Qiang Dialectology. Language and Linguistics 17(3), 351–381. DOI:10.1177/1606822X15586685

Sims, Nathaniel. 2017. The suprasegmental phonology of proto-Rma (Qiang) in comparative perspective. Presented at the 50th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Beijing, November 26, 2017.