| Jingpho–Luish | |
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| Kachin–Luic | |
| Geographic distribution | Northeast India,Bangladesh,Myanmar |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Glottolog | jing1259 |
TheJingpho-Luish,Jingpho-Asakian,Kachin–Luic, orKachinic languages are a group ofSino-Tibetan languages belonging to theSal branch. They are spoken in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and consist of theJingpho (also known as Kachin) language and theLuish (a.k.a. Asakian) languagesSak,Kadu,Ganan,Andro,Sengmai, andChairel.Ethnologue andGlottolog include the extinct or nearly extinctTaman language in the Jingpo branch, but Huziwara (2016)[1] considers it to be unclassified within Tibeto-Burman.
James Matisoff (2013)[2] provides phonological and lexical evidence in support of theJingpho-Asakian (Jingpho–Luish) grouping, dividing it into two subgroups, namelyJingphoic andAsakian. Proto-Luish has been reconstructed by Huziwara (2012)[3] and Matisoff (2013).
Jingpho-Luish languages contain manysesquisyllables.[2]
Matisoff (2013),[2] citing Huziwara (2012),[3] provides the followingStammbaum classification for the Jingpho-Asakian (Jingpho-Luish) branch. Jingphoic internal classification is from Kurabe (2014).[4]
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||