[3][4] Mount Murdo is in the historical region of Kham, now mostly located inside Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan.

This Tibetan word is transcribed in Chinese as 嘉绒 or 嘉戎 or 嘉荣, jiāróng.

The Gyalrong people are the descendants of former Tibetan warriors at the border, where they settled as time went by.

[9] Syntactically, Gyalrong languages have SOV basic word order, and have been so for quite a while, Jacques argues.

This combination of SOV word order with prefixing tendencies is typologically quite rare, although it is found also in Ket and various Athabaskan languages.