"Kachin language" redirects here. For other meanings of word "Kachin" see Kachin (disambiguation)

The Jingpho language (also called Jinghpaw, Chingp'o or Marip) is sometimes also referred as Kachin. This language is spoken in the Kachin State in Myanmar all also in China (about 40,000 speakers in 1999) by totally approximately 900,000 people[2]. Kachin State (Jingphaw Mungdan), is the northernmost state of Myanmar. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... The Sino-Tibetan languages form a putative language family composed of Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages, including some 250 languages of East Asia. ... The Tibeto-Burman family of languages (often considered a sub-group of the Sino-Tibetan language family) is spoken in various central and south Asian countries, including Myanmar (Burma), northern Thailand, and parts of Western China (Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai (Amdo), Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan), Nepal, Bhutan, India (Himachal... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in any of the worlds writing systems. ... Kachin may refer to: An ethnic group, in Myanmar known as Kachin (or Jingpaw), in China (Yunnan) known as Jingpo. ... Kachin State (Jingphaw Mungdan), is the northernmost state of Myanmar. ...

Kachin Language

In fact there is no Kachin language[3]. Kachin language refers either to Jingpho language or to group of languages spoken by various ethnic groups in the same region including Jingpo. Those languages are Lisu, Lachit, Rawang, Zaiwa, Maru, Achang (Ngo Chang), and Jingpho. These languages are from distinct branches of the highest level of the Tibeto-Burman family. So it shouldn't be referred as neither one language nor language group. The Jingpo or Kachin people (Chinese: 景颇族 Jǐngpōzú; own names: Jingpo, Tsaiva, Lechi) are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Myanmar (Kachin State). ... Lisu is a Sino-Tibetan tonal language spoken in Yunnan (southwestern China), northern Burma, and Thailand and a small part of India. ... The Achang language is spoken by the Achang people in China. ... The Tibeto-Burman family of languages (often considered a sub-group of the Sino-Tibetan language family) is spoken in various central and south Asian countries, including Myanmar (Burma), northern Thailand, and parts of Western China (Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai (Amdo), Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan), Nepal, Bhutan, India (Himachal...

Sources

1. Kachin on ethnologue.com
2. Linguistlist.org
3. Rosetta Project