A grammar of Japhug

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan
(Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county,
Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years
of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and
conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole
grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong
culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove
useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists,
but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some
readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in
the future.