Jingpho language

E644026

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

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Jinghpaw language 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
closelyRelatedTo Lhaovo language NERFINISHED
Luish languages
Maru language NERFINISHED
Zaiwa language NERFINISHED
country China
India
Myanmar
hasAlternativeName Chingpaw NERFINISHED
Jinghpaw NERFINISHED
Jingpo NERFINISHED
Kachin language NERFINISHED
hasDialect Gauri dialect
Hkaku dialect NERFINISHED
Kauri dialect NERFINISHED
Mengzhi dialect
Nkhum dialect NERFINISHED
Standard Jingpho NERFINISHED
Thingnai dialect NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Jingpho NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode jing1260
hasISO639-3Code kac
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
phonemic vowel length
tonal language
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Burmese script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Romanized orthography
languageBranch Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
region Kachin State NERFINISHED
spokenBy Jingpo people NERFINISHED
Kachin people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
Assam NERFINISHED
China NERFINISHED
India
Myanmar NERFINISHED
Yunnan NERFINISHED
northern Myanmar
subfamilyOf Jingpho–Luish languages NERFINISHED
usedAs lingua franca in Kachin State
usedIn Christian religious services in Kachin areas
education in some schools in Kachin State
writingSystemDevelopedBy Christian missionaries

Referenced by (5)

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

Kachin Americans languageUsed Jingpho language
this entity surface form: Jinghpaw language
Lolo-Burmese includes Jingpho language
Kachin Independence Organization languageUsed Jingpho language
this entity surface form: Jinghpaw language
Manau festival language Jingpho language
this entity surface form: Jinghpaw language