Jingpho (kac)

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

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Label Occurrences
Jingpho (kac) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
natural language
hasAlignment nominative-accusative alignment
hasAlternativeName Chingp'o
Jingpo
linked to: Jingpo people

Kachin
Singpho
linked to: Singpho language
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCaseMarking postpositional markers
hasDialects Dingga dialect
Gauri dialect
Hkaku dialect
Kauri dialect
Mungji dialect
Nkhum dialect
Standard Jingpho
hasGlottocode jing1260
hasISO639-2Code kac
hasISO639-3Code kac
hasLinguisticTypology head-final language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNeighboringRelatedLanguages Lisu language
linked to: Lisu

Nungish languages
Rawang language
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
contrastive tone
phonemic vowel length
tone language
hasStandardVarietyBasedIn Myitkyina
hasWritingSystem Burmese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Romanized orthography
isRecognizedMinorityLanguageIn China
India
Myanmar
languageBranch Jingpho–Luish
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
languageSubfamily Sal branch
spokenBy Jingpo people
Kachin people
spokenIn China
India
Myanmar
spokenInRegion Kachin State
Northeast India
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Kachin State
usedIn Christian religious practice among Jingpo people
education in Kachin State

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

Jingpo language hasEthnologueEntry Jingpho (kac)