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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jingpho language canonical 10
Jinghpaw language 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
closelyRelatedTo Lhaovo language
linked to: Lhao Vo language

Luish languages
Maru language
Zaiwa language
country China
India
Myanmar
hasAlternativeName Chingpaw
linked to: Chingp'o

Jinghpaw
Jingpo
linked to: Jingpo people

Kachin language
hasDialect Gauri dialect
Hkaku dialect
Kauri dialect
Mengzhi dialect
Nkhum dialect
Standard Jingpho
Thingnai dialect
hasEthnologueEntry Jingpho
hasGlottocode jing1260
hasISO639-3Code kac
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
phonemic vowel length
tonal language
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Burmese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Romanized orthography
languageBranch Tibeto-Burman
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
region Kachin State
spokenBy Jingpo people
Kachin people
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
China
India
Myanmar
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province

northern Myanmar
subfamilyOf Jingpho–Luish languages
usedAs lingua franca in Kachin State
usedIn Christian religious services in Kachin areas
education in some schools in Kachin State
writingSystemDevelopedBy Christian missionaries

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

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

Kachin Americans languageUsed Jinghpaw language
linked to: Jingpho language
Lolo-Burmese includes Jingpho language
Kachin Independence Organization languageUsed Jinghpaw language
linked to: Jingpho language
Manau festival language Jinghpaw language
linked to: Jingpho language
Jingpo people speaks Jingpho language
Kachin people speaks Jingpho language
Kachin language alternativeName Jinghpaw language
linked to: Jingpho language
Proto-Tibeto-Burman ancestorOf Jingpho language
Lashi language closelyRelatedTo Jingpho language
Lashi language neighboringLanguage Jingpho language
Zaiwa language neighboringLanguage Jingpho language
Northern Myanmar hasLanguage Jingpho language
Indo-Burma linguistic area hasLanguage Jingpho language