Jingpho-Sak languages

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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

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
        • Bodo cook (Barisch)
        • Konyak Naga (North Naga)
        • Jingpho-Sak (Kachin-Luish)

Internal classification and number of speakers

  • Jingpho-Sak or Kachin-Luish
    • Jingpho or Kachin
      • Jingpho (Kachin) (. 950 thousand)   dialects Hkaku, Kauri, Dzili; Enkun, Shidan
      • Singpho (3k)
      • Taman (10 thousand)
    • Sak or Kadu or Luisch
      • Kadu (Kado, Sak) (90k)
      • Ganan (Ganaan) (40k)
      • Extinct: Chakma (Chakpa), Sengmai, Andro, Phayeng

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

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