| Jingpho | ||
|---|---|---|
| tɕiŋ˧˩pʰɔʔ˧˩ | ||
| Spoken in | Burma, People's Republic of China | |
| Region | Kachin State, Yingjiang | |
| Total speakers | 900,000 [1] | |
| Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | kac | |
| ISO 639-3 | kac | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
- "Kachin language" redirects here. For other meanings of word "Kachin" see Kachin (disambiguation)
The Jingpho language (Jinghpaw, Chingp'o; (also called Kachin or Marip) is sometimes also referred as Kachin. This language is spoken in the Kachin State in Burma and also in the PRC (about 40,000 speakers in 1999). Thus, the language is spoken by totally approximately 900,000 people.[1]
'Kachin' can refer either to the Jingpho language or to a group of languages spoken by various ethnic groups in the same region as Jingpo. These languages are Lisu, Lachit, Rawang, Zaiwa, Maru,
Jinghpo is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the jinghpo-bodo-konyak (kachinic) subgroup. It is a tonal language. The Jingpo ethnicity or Kachin (ka khrang in Burmese is contained between Yunnan In the People's Republic of China, the Kachin state of Burma and Thailand. This ethnic group contains speakers of other lolo-Burmese languages in addition to Jingpho who have adopted the Jingpho social system.
The Turung of Assam in India speak a Jingpho dialect mixed with thai words. This language is called Singpho.[No, "Singpho" is the local pronunciation of "Jingpho".]
Jingpho has verbal morphology which marks the subject and the direct object. Here is one example (the tonemes) are not marked. The verb is 'to be' (rai).
| person and number | present | past |
| 1sg | rai n ngai | rai sa ngai |
| 2sg | rai n dai | rai sin dai |
| 3sg | rai ai | rai sai |
| 1pl | rai ga ai | rai sa ga dai |
| 2pl | rai ma dai | rai ma sin dai |
| 3pl | rai ma ai | rai ma sai |
Jingpho syllable finals can end in vowels, nasals, or oral stops.
Footnotes
- ^ "Ethnologue report for ISO 639 code: kac". www.ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_iso639.asp?code=kac. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
Bibliography
- Site internet en jinghpo
- Jinghpaw Learning
- 景颇语-汉语词典 Jingpho Chinese dictionary, 戴庆夏 Dai Qingxia et al. ;
- 景颇语语法 Grammar of Jingpho, 戴庆夏 Dai Qingxia et al. ;
- Structures élémentaires de la parenté, de Claude Lévi-Strauss, devotes a chapter to the study of parantage in the Jingpho ethnicity.
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