The Rung languages are a proposed branch of

Sino-Tibetan languages Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...

. The branch was proposed by

Randy LaPolla Randy John LaPolla () is a professor and former Head of Division at thDivision of Linguistics and Multilingual Studiesin Nanyang Technological University. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, elected 2008. He is current ...

on the basis of morphological evidence such as pronominal paradigms. However,

Guillaume Jacques Guillaume Jacques (, b. 1979) is a French linguist who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages: Old Chinese, Tangut, Tibetan, Gyalrongic and Kiranti languages. He also performs research on the Algonquian and Siouan language families ...

and Thomas Pellard (2021) argues that these languages do not constitute a

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based on recent phylogenetic studies and on a thorough investigation of shared lexical innovations. LaPolla (2003) lists the following languages as part of his provisional "Rung" group.LaPolla, Randy. 2003. "Overview of Sino-Tibetan Morphosyntax". In Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge. ;Rung * Rgyalrongic (also often included into the Qiangic branch) * Nungish ** T'rung (Dulong) **

Anong Southern Anung (Lisu: Fuche Naw; Mandarin: 阿侬语 Anong), is a Sino-Tibetan languages, Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Nung people in Fugong County, China and Kachin State, Myanmar. The Anong language is closely related to the Derung la ...

** Rawang *

Kiranti The Kirati people, also spelled as Kirant or Kiranti, are a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group. They are peoples of the Himalayas, mostly the Eastern Himalaya extending eastward from Nepal to North East India (predominantly in the Indian state of Sikkim ...

* West Himalayan (Kinauri-Almora) **Kinauri **Almora *

Kham Kham (; ) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents of Kham are called Khampas (), and were governed locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham ...

* Magar * Chepang

, Magar, and Chepangic have also been proposed to form part of a

Greater Magaric The Greater Magaric languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages proposed by Nicolas Schorer (2016). Schorer (2016: 286-287) considers Greater Magaric to be closely related to the Kiranti languages as part of a greater '' Himalayish'' branch, ...

group.

References

* Thurgood, Graham and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.) (2003). ''The Sino-Tibetan Languages''. London: Routledge. . * {{st-lang-stub es:Lenguas rung