Southern Qiang language
| Southern Qiang | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sichuan Province |
| Ethnicity | Qiang people |
Native speakers | (81,000 cited 1999) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qxs |
| Glottolog | sout2728 |
| ELP | Southern Qiang |
Southern Qiang is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Qiangic branch spoken by approximately 81,300 people along the Minjiang (Chinese: 岷江) river in Sichuan Province, China.
Southern Qiang dialects preserve archaic pronoun flexions, while they have disappeared in Northern Qiang. Unlike its close relative Northern Qiang, Southern Qiang is a tonal language.