Social:Singpho dialect
| Singpho | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Ethnicity | Singpho |
Native speakers | 2,500 (2006)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgp |
| Glottolog | sing1264[2] |
Singpho is a dialect of the Jingpho language spoken by the Singpho people of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, India . It is spoken by at least 3,000 people. "Singpho" is the local pronunciation of "Jingpho".
The Jingpho/Singpho (Jinghpaw, Chingp'o), or Kachin, language is a Tibeto-Burman language mainly spoken in Kachin State, Myanmar and Yunnan Province, China . The term Kachin language can refer either to the Jingpho language or to a group of languages spoken by various ethnic groups in the same region as Jingpho: Lisu, Lachit, Rawang, Zaiwa, Lhaovo, Achang (Ngo Chang), and Jingpho. These languages are from distinct branches of the highest level of the Tibeto-Burman family. The total estimated native speakers are 950,000 (2001 census).Template:Incomplete citation
Singpho is spoken the eastern extreme of northeastern India , such as Bordumsa Circle, Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh, and also in nearby parts of Lohit District.[3]
Singpho lacks the system of person-number agreement on an auxiliary particle found in the other dialects of Jingpho. DeLancey attributes this to creolization "in the broad sense", as a simplification brought about by a large population of enslaved Assamese rice farmers learning Singpho as a second language.[4]
References
- ↑ Singpho at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Northern Jinghpaw". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sing1264.
- ↑ Das Gupta, Kamalesh (1979). A Phrase Book in Singpho. Shillong: Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh. OCLC 8168660.Template:Pages?
- ↑ DeLancey, Scott (2010). "Towards a History of Verb Agreement in Tibeto-Burman". Himalayan Linguistics 9 (1): 1–39 [28]. ISSN 1544-7502. https://escholarship.org/content/qt0gj660hg/qt0gj660hg_noSplash_9ba519c791a4cd927e1ca045a089b4cc.pdf?t=pfpo96. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
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