Jingpho-Sak languages
The Jingpho-Sak languages or Kachin-Luisch languages form a sub-unit of the Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho languages , which belong to the Tibetan-Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The five Jingpho-Sak languages are spoken by 1.1 million people in Northeast India , Bangladesh , Burma and South China . The largest single language is Jingpho or Kachin with 950,000 speakers. The Jinghpo-Sak or Kachin-Luisch is divided into Jingpho ( Kachin ) and Sak ( Luisch ).
Bodo cook within Sino-Tibetan
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
- Bodo cook (Barisch)
- Konyak Naga (North Naga)
- Jingpho-Sak (Kachin-Luish)
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
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Tibeto Burmese
Internal classification and number of speakers
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Jingpho-Sak or Kachin-Luish
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Jingpho or Kachin
- Jingpho (Kachin) (. 950 thousand) dialects Hkaku, Kauri, Dzili; Enkun, Shidan
- Singpho (3k)
- Taman (10 thousand)
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Sak or Kadu or Luisch
- Kadu (Kado, Sak) (90k)
- Ganan (Ganaan) (40k)
- Extinct: Chakma (Chakpa), Sengmai, Andro, Phayeng
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Jingpho or Kachin
Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.
literature
Jingpho-Sak languages
- Robbins Burling: The Tibeto-Burman Languages of Northeastern India. In: G. Thurgood, RJ LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. 2003.
- Dai Qingxia, Lon Diehl: Jingpho. In: G. Thurgood, RJ LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. 2003.
Tibeto Burmese
- Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2002.
- Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
- Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. Mouton, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1982.
- James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. University of California Press, 2003.
- Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004.
- Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 .
- George Van Driem: Languages of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.
See also
Web links
- Ernst Kausen: The Classification of the Sino-Tibetan Languages. (DOC; 116 kB)