rGyalrong is an important Tibeto-Burman language of western Sichuan. The language is extremely diverse with several mutually unintelligible dialects; both its internal subclassification and its position in the Tibeto-Burman family remain unsettled. This article presents a detailed analysis of the nominal morphology of Caodeng, a little-documented major subdialect of northwestern rGyalrong, on the basis of fresh data collected in recent field work conducted in China.

Keywords: Tibeto-Burman, rGyalrong, Nominal morphology