Kachin language

E566320

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