Kachin language

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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.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Kachin language canonical 3
Kachin languages 3
Kachin (Jingpho) languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
alternativeName Jinghpaw language
linked to: Jingpho language

Jingpo language
Kachin Jingpo
linked to: Kachin people
associatedWithReligion Buddhism
Christianity
closelyRelatedTo Lhao Vo language
Lhaovo language
linked to: Lhao Vo language

Zaiwa language
glottocode jing1260
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialect Dingga dialect
Gauri dialect
Hkaku dialect
Mungji dialect
Nkhum dialect
Standard Jinghpaw
hasEthnologueEntry Kachin
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
primaryWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
region South Asia
Southeast Asia
spokenBy Jingpo people
Kachin people
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
China
India
Kachin State
Myanmar
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province

northern Myanmar
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Kachin State
usedFor education in Kachin communities
local media
religious activities
writingSystem Burmese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

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

Jingpo language hasAlternativeName Kachin language
Tibeto-Burman peoples hasLanguageBranch Kachin (Jingpho) languages
linked to: Kachin language
Jingpho language hasAlternativeName Kachin language
Kachin Baptist Convention languageUsed Kachin language
Jinghpaw subfamilyOf Kachin languages
linked to: Kachin language
Putao Township language Kachin languages
linked to: Kachin language
Tanai hasMinorityLanguages Kachin languages
linked to: Kachin language