The Rma language (Nate Sims)
Channel: Nathan Hill
Date: 2021-09-08

This video introduces the Rma language of Sichuan, spoken by communities that are classified as both Tibetan and Qiang (羌). The speaker is Nathaniel Sims, currently a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 


For more information on this language see the following publications: 



Evans, Jonathan. P. (2001). Introduction to Qiang phonology and lexicon: Synchrony and diachrony.

LaPolla, Randy. J., & Huang, Chenglong. (2003). A grammar of Qiang: With annotated texts and glossary (Vol. 31). Walter de Gruyter.

Wang, Ming-ke (1999). From the Qiang Barbarians to the Qiang nationality: The making of a new Chinese boundary. Imaging China: Regional Division and National Unity. Taipei: The Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica.