嘉绒语分东部、北部和西部三个方言。使用嘉绒语东部方言和北部方言的人自称k(?)ru,与《旧唐书·东女国传》所记的“哥邻”的译音相近;使用藏语的人将使用嘉绒语的地区称rgia roη,与《隋书·附国传》的“嘉良”和《新唐书·两僜蛮传》的“嘉梁”的译音相近。使用嘉绒语的族群世居西藏东部、四川西部的岷江、大渡河流域,游牧于黄河、长江上游偏 Jia Rong language points east, north and west of the three dialects. People who use the eastern dialect of Jia Rong dialect and the northern dialect claim to be k (?) Ru, which is similar to the transliteration of “brother and sister” recorded in “Old Tang and Eastern Women’s Biography”; those who speak Tibetan will use Jia Rong area called rgia roη, and “Sui Shu Fu Fu Chuan” “Jialiang ” and “New Tang book two 僜 Manchu,” “Jia Liang ” transliteration similar. The ethnic groups using Jiarong language live in eastern Tibet, Minjiang and western Sichuan in the Dadu River basin, nomadic in the Yellow River, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River