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Where does “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས” come from?

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ལྗོངས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan kl(j)u(ŋ/k) — river; valley.

རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (Tibetan): autonomous region

Definitions

  1. autonomous region

Ancestry of “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྗོངསlarge valley, principal or main valley; district,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetankl(j)u(ŋ/k)river; valley

Words derived from “རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས”

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