Jinghpaw

E825632

Jinghpaw is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Kachin people in northern Myanmar and neighboring regions of China and India.

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Label Occurrences
Jinghpaw canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
hasAlternativeName Jingpho
Kachin
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCommunity Kachin diaspora communities
hasContactLanguage Burmese
Chinese
English
hasDialects Lower dialects
Standard Jinghpaw
Upper dialects
hasGlottocode jing1260
hasISO639-3Code kac
hasLanguageBranch Tibeto-Burman
hasLanguageFamily Sino-Tibetan
hasLanguageGroup Jingpho-Luish
linked to: Jingpho
hasLinguisticResearch New Testament translations
descriptive grammars
dictionaries
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguages Burmese
Lisu
Rawang
Shan
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
hasRegion Eastern Himalayas
Southeast Asia
hasScriptHistory missionary-devised Latin orthography
hasStandardVarietyCenter Myitkyina
hasStatus regional language in Kachin State
hasWritingSystem Burmese script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
spokenBy Kachin people
spokenIn China
India
Kachin State
Myanmar
Northeast India
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province

northern Myanmar
subfamilyOf Kachin languages
linked to: Kachin language
usedAs lingua franca in Kachin State
usedIn Kachin Baptist churches
education in some Kachin areas

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Referenced by (7)

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

Myitkyina language Jinghpaw
Kachin people autonym Jinghpaw
Jingpho hasAlternativeName Jinghpaw
Hpakant language Jinghpaw
Chipwi hasLanguage Jinghpaw