Jingpo language

E135024

The Jingpo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo (Kachin) people in northern Myanmar and adjacent regions of China and India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jingpo language canonical 2
Standard Jingpo 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
Tibeto-Burman language
language
closelyRelatedTo Luish languages
Nungish languages
hasAlternativeName Chingpaw
Jingpho
Kachin language
hasDialect Gauri dialect
Hkaku dialect
Htingnai dialect
Nkhum dialect
Shang dialect
Jingpo language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Jingpo

Thingnai dialect
hasEthnologueEntry Jingpho (kac)
hasGlottocode jing1260
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect marking
case marking by suffixes
postpositions
verb serialization
hasISO639-3Code kac
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tones
glottal stop
nasal consonants
tonal language
voiceless and voiced stops
hasSpeakerPopulation hundreds of thousands of speakers
hasStatus minority language in China
minority language in India
regional language in Kachin State
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Burmese script
Chinese characters (historically, to a limited extent)
Latin script
Latin-based Jingpo orthography
Roman script
languageBranch Tibeto-Burman languages
surface form: Tibeto-Burman
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
surface form: Sino-Tibetan
region Northeast India
surface form: Northeastern India

Northern Myanmar
Southwest China
surface form: Southwestern China
spokenBy Jingpo people
Kachin people
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
China
India
Kachin State
Myanmar
Yunnan Province
surface form: Yunnan
subfamilyOf Jingpho–Luish languages
usedAs lingua franca in Kachin State
usedIn Christian religious texts among Jingpo people
Jingpo literature
local education in some areas of Kachin State

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sino-Tibetan languages includesLanguage Jingpo language
Jingpo language hasDialect Jingpo language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Jingpo
Dehong hasMinorityLanguage Jingpo language
subject surface form: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture