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Jingpho language

Index Jingpho language

Jingpho (Jinghpaw, Chingp'o) or Kachin (ကချင်ဘာသာ) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sal branch mainly spoken in Kachin State, Burma and Yunnan, China. [1]

49 relations: Abugida, Achang language, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Assamese language, Baptists in the United States, Bhamo, Burmese alphabet, Burmese script, China, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Derung people, Ethnologue, Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County, India, International Phonetic Alphabet, Jingpho–Luish languages, Jingpo people, Kachin people, Kachin State, Kutkai, Lashi language, Latin alphabet, Latin script, Lhao Vo language, Lianghe County, Lisu language, Longchuan County, Yunnan, Luxi County, Yunnan, Machanbaw, Missionary, Myanmar, Myitkyina, Putao, Rawang language, Ruili, Sagaing Region, Sal languages, Shan State, Singpho dialect, Syllabary, Tai languages, Tai peoples, Tibeto-Burman languages, Titabor, Turung people, Yingjiang County, Yunnan, Zaiwa language.

Abugida

An abugida (from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ ’abugida), or alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

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Achang language

The Achang language (autonym) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Achang (also known as Maingtha and Ngochang) in Yunnan, China.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh ("the land of dawn-lit mountains") is one of the 29 states of India and is the northeastern-most state of the country.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Assamese language

Assamese or Asamiya অসমীয়া is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

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Baptists in the United States

There are about 50 million self-professed Baptists in the United States who make up a significant portion of evangelicals in the United States and approximately one third of all Protestants in the United States; at the same time this also makes them the second largest religious grouping following Roman Catholics in the United States.

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Bhamo

Bhamo (ဗန်းမော်မြို့ ban: mau mrui., also spelt Banmaw) is a city of Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar, located south from the capital city of the state of Kachin (Myitkyina).

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Burmese alphabet

The Burmese alphabet (MLCTS) is an abugida used for writing Burmese.

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Burmese script

The Burmese script is the basis of the alphabets used for modern Burmese, Mon, Shan and Karen.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908, Brussels – 30 October 2009, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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Derung people

The Derung (also spelt Drung or Dulong) people (endonym) are an ethnic group.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County

Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County is located in Lincang City, in the west of Yunnan province, China.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Jingpho–Luish languages

The Jingpho-Luish, Jingpho-Asakian, Kachin–Luic, or Kachinic languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages belonging the Sal branch.

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Jingpo people

The Jingpo people are an ethnic group who are the largest subset of the Kachin peoples, which largely inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province of China and India's Arunachal Pradesh, which is claimed by China.

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Kachin people

The Kachin people (Jingpho: Ga Hkyeng red soil), Jingpho Wunpong (Jingpho: Jinghpaw Wunpawng the Confederation of Jingpo) or simply Wunpong (the Confederation), are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Burma's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province, China, and Arunachal Pradesh, India.

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Kachin State

Kachin State (Kachin: Jingphaw Mungdaw; ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္) is the northernmost state of Myanmar.

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Kutkai

Kutkai (ကွတ်ခိုင် kwat hkuing) is a town and seat of Kutkai Township, in the Shan State of eastern-central Burma.

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Lashi language

Lashi (endonym Lacid) is a Burmish language.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

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Lhao Vo language

Lhao Vo, also known as Maru and Langsu, is a Burmish language of Burma with a few thousand speakers in China.

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Lianghe County

Lianghe County (เมืองตี) is located in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, southwest China.

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Lisu language

Lisu (Lisu: ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ or ꓡꓲꓢꓴ;; လီဆူဘာသာစကား) is a tonal Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan (southwestern China), northern Burma (Myanmar), and Thailand and a small part of India.

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Longchuan County, Yunnan

Longchuan County (เมืองวัน) is a county located in Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, southwestern China, bordering Burma's Kachin State to the southwest.

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Luxi County, Yunnan

Luxi County is located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

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Machanbaw

Machanbaw (မချမ်းဘောမြို့) is a town in the Kachin State of northernmost part of the Myanmar.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Myitkyina

Myitkyina ((Eng; mitchinar) Kachin: Myitkyina) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay.

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Putao

Putao (ပူတာအိုမြို့) is the northernmost town of Kachin State, Myanmar.

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Rawang language

Rawang, also known as Krangku, Kiutze (Qiuze), and Ch’opa, is a Sino-Tibetan language of India and Burma.

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Ruili

Ruili (เมืองมาว; ရွှေလီ) is a county-level city of Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.

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Sagaing Region

Sagaing Region (စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,, formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and longitude 94° 97' east.

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Sal languages

The Sal languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in eastern India, parts of Bangladesh, and Burma.

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Shan State

Shan State (Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်,; Shan: မိူင်းတႆး) is a state of Myanmar.

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Singpho dialect

Singpho is a dialect of the Jingpho language spoken by the Singpho people of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

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Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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Tai languages

The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages (ภาษาไท or ภาษาไต, transliteration: or) are a branch of the Kra–Dai language family.

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Tai peoples

Tai peoples refers to the population of descendants of speakers of a common Tai language, including sub-populations that no longer speak a Tai language.

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Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Titabor

Titabor is a town in the Jorhat district of Assam in India.

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Turung people

The Turung people (also known as the Tai Turung, Thai: คนไทตุรุง) are a numerically small Buddhist community in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

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Yingjiang County

Yingjiang County (เมืองหล้า) is a county in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Burma's Kachin State to the west.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.

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Zaiwa language

Zaiwa (autonym:; Tsaiwa, Tsaiva, 载瓦) is a Burmish language spoken in parts of China and Burma.

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Chingp'o, Chingpaw language, Dzili language, Hka-hku language, Hkaku language, Hkauri language, ISO 639:kac, Jili language (Burma), Jinghpaw language, Jingpaw language, Jingpo language, Kachin language, Marip.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingpho_language

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