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Dulong or Drung, Derung, Rawang, Trung, is a Tibeto-Burman language in China. There are 14,000 (2,000 census) people speaking in two dialects: 8,500 in Nu River dialect, and 5,500 in Dulong River dialect. The locations of Dulong are Yunnan province (Gongshan Dulong-Nu autonomous county), Xizang Autonomous Region (Gongshan Dulong-Nu autonomous county west to Chayu (Zayü) county), Gongshang county, Bingzhongluo, and Tibet (Chayu county, Chawalong district). Speakers of Dulong are generally in all domains and all ages with positive attitudes. They also use Burmese, Lisu, Mandarin Chinese. Dulong is closely related to the Rawang language of Myanmar (Burma).

Dulong is also called: Taron, Kiu, Qui, Kiutze, Qiuzi, Kiupa, Kiao, Metu, Melam, Tamalu, Tukiumu, Qiu, Nung,  Nu-tzŭ.

Dialectal variation
Dulong is considered to have four dialects based on areas where it is spoken: First Township, Third Township, Fourth Township, and Nujiang. In China, the people who speak what is known as the Dulong (T'rung) language live in Gongshan county of Yunnan province, and belong to either what is known as the Dulong nationality  (population of 5,816 according to the 1990 census), or to one part (roughly 6,000 people) of the Nu nationality (those who live along the upper reaches of the Nu River). Another subgroup of the Nu people, those who live along the lower reaches of the Nu river, speak a language called Anung which is closely related to, the Kwinpang dialect of Rawang spoken in Myanmar, so should also be considered a dialect of Dulong-Rawang. Dulong has the lexical similarity of 74% with Matwang dialect of Rawang. These dialects, however, are not spoken strictly within the borders of their provinces, and could rather be grouped together in their similarities according to their geographic distribution between the northern and southern parts of those areas.

Grammar
Dulong has twenty-four initial consonants at six points of articulation, plus the consonant clusters /pr, br, mr, kr, xr, gr, pl, bl, ml, kl, gl/ in initial position: only the consonants /p, t, ʔ, k, n, m, ŋ, r, l/ occur in final position. The Dulong vowels are /i, ε, ə, ɑ, ɔ, &, u/, and there are three diphthongs, /əi, ɑi, ωi/, which only appear in open syllables. Words can be formed by prefixation, suffixation, or compounding. Word classes include nouns, defined by the ability to appear with a numeral classifier; verbs, defined by the ability to appear with negation and the person and tense marking; postpositions, which are enclitic to NPs, numerals, and classifiers.