Jingpho

E566319

Jingpho is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Jingpo people in parts of Myanmar, China, and India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Jingpho canonical 7
Chingphoi 1
Jingpho-Luish 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Luish languages
country India
Myanmar
People's Republic of China
linked to: China
glottocode jing1260
hasAlternativeName Jinghpaw
Kachin
Singpho
hasCaseMarking postpositional
hasDialect Gauri dialect
Kachin dialect
Mengzhi dialect
Nkhum dialect
Standard Jingpho
Thingnai dialect
hasMorphologicalType analytic
isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
nasal consonants
tonal language
voiceless and voiced stops
hasStandardVarietyBasedIn Myitkyina
hasWritingSystem Burmese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Romanized orthography
influencedBy Burmese language
linked to: Burmese

Shan language
iso639-3Code kac
isOfficialLanguageOf Kachin State (Myanmar, regional)
linked to: Kachin State
languageBranch Tibeto-Burman
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
region Kachin State
Northeast India
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province
spokenBy Jingpo people
spokenIn China
India
Myanmar
subfamilyOf Jingpho–Luish languages
usedAs literary language
vernacular language
usedByEthnicGroup Kachin ethnic groups
usedIn Christian religious practice
education (regional)
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

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

Konyak hasDialects Chingphoi
linked to: Jingpho
Jinghpaw hasLanguageGroup Jingpho-Luish
linked to: Jingpho
Jinghpaw hasAlternativeName Jingpho
Mohnyin languageUsed Jingpho