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 ⓘ