Brief introduction of Jia Rong's language

Jiarong language is a very primitive language and a "living fossil" of Sino-Tibetan language family. It retains some phonetic forms (such as consonants) and word-formation means of the original Sino-Tibetan language. Jia Rong's language is of great significance to understand the pronunciation and grammar of ancient Chinese, because the comparison of language history is helpful to build the phonetic system of ancient Chinese. For example, Xia Jiaer, a French linguist, suggested that "elbow" (with rhyme in the Middle Ages) be constructed as *tr-ku? . Jia Rong can confirm this construction because the word has the same compound consonant as tkr- /trk-; Please refer to the form of "elbow" in Jiarong dialect: tea fort t? -? Ru Japanese t? -kr？ vzu？ Four soil t? -Crewe.

Jia Rong's verb forms are very rich. In addition to tense, it also indicates personal category: the personal sum of verbs is consistent with subject/object. In the Sino-Tibetan language family, in addition to Jiarong language, many languages also display personal markers of verbs, such as Jingpo language. Some scholars even suspect that the original Chinese and Tibetan languages may have the same verb person marker, but this marker system disappeared in Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese, and only remained in the more primitive language. In Sino-Tibetan language family, both Tibetan and Chinese have a long literary tradition, but both have lost some important features of the original language. On the contrary, the language in the marginal areas is closer to the original language.