Kachin language

E566320

Tibeto-Burman language language

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

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kachin (Jingpho) languages	1
Kachin language canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tibeto-Burman language ⓘ language ⓘ
alternativeName	Jinghpaw language NERFINISHED ⓘ Jingpo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kachin Jingpo NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithReligion	Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Christianity ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Lhao Vo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Lhaovo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Zaiwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottocode	jing1260 ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
hasDialect	Dingga dialect ⓘ Gauri dialect ⓘ Hkaku dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Mungji dialect ⓘ Nkhum dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ Standard Jinghpaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEthnologueEntry	Kachin NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLiterature	Bible translations ⓘ folk tales and oral literature ⓘ hymns and religious texts ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ tone ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	kac ⓘ
languageBranch	Jingpho–Luish ⓘ
languageFamily	Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
languageSubfamily	Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryWritingSystem	Latin script NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ
spokenBy	Jingpo people NERFINISHED ⓘ Kachin people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED ⓘ China NERFINISHED ⓘ India ⓘ Kachin State NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Yunnan NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Myanmar ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in parts of Kachin State ⓘ
usedFor	education in Kachin communities ⓘ local media ⓘ religious activities ⓘ
writingSystem	Burmese script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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

Jingpo language → hasAlternativeName → Kachin language ⓘ

Tibeto-Burman peoples → hasLanguageBranch → Kachin language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kachin (Jingpho) languages