(北京:民族出版社,2008年版)中国的语言(方言)和少数民族语言丰富多样,甚至还有一些尚未被发现的语言或方言,这些都是语言研究的宝贵材料,也应是被保护的对象。嘉绒语主要分布在四川西北部的藏族地区,分为四种方言:四土话、草登话、茶堡话、日部话,这四种方言之间不能互相通话。向柏霖先生的《嘉绒语研究》一书,以嘉绒语中的茶堡话作为主要的研究对象,对茶堡话的语音、词汇、语法以及嘉绒语的构拟与系属问题进行了详细的描写,并对其中一些重要问题做出了深入的解释。这里需要交代的一个背景是关于对嘉绒方言的分类问题,由于中西方学术背景的差异,大多数西方人一般是按照能否通话对语言进行分类,比如,以汉语的吴语和 (Beijing: Nationalities Press, 2008) China’s languages ​​(dialects) and minority languages ​​are rich and varied. There are even some undiscovered languages ​​or dialects, all of which are precious materials for linguistic research and should be protected Object Jiarong language is mainly distributed in the Tibetan region of northwestern Sichuan and is divided into four dialects: the four dialects, the grass dialect, the tea fort, the Japanese dialect, and these four dialects can not communicate with each other. To Mr. Bo Lin’s “Study of Jiarong language”, the Chaobin dialect in Jiarong language is taken as the main research object, and the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar of Chabu dialect and the formation and affiliation of Jiarong language are carried out A detailed description, and made some in-depth explanation of some of the important issues. The background to be explained here is about the classification of the Jiarong dialect. Due to the differences in academic backgrounds between the West and the West, most Westerners usually classify languages ​​according to whether they can call or not. For example,