Jingpho–Luish languages

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Jingpho–Luish
Kachin–Luic
Geographic
distribution
Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Subdivisions
  • Jingpho
    (Kachin)
  • Luish (Asakian)
Glottologjing1259

The Jingpho-Luish, Jingpho-Asakian, Kachin–Luic, or Kachinic languages are a group of

Taman language in the Jingpo branch, but Huziwara (2016)[1]
considers it to be unclassified within Tibeto-Burman.

Jingphoic and Asakian. Proto-Luish has been reconstructed by Huziwara (2012)[3]
and Matisoff (2013).

Jingpho-Luish languages contain many

Classification

Matisoff (2013),

Stammbaum classification for the Jingpho-Asakian (Jingpho-Luish) branch. Jingphoic internal classification is from Kurabe (2014).[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Matisoff, James A. 2013. Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(2). 1–106.
  2. ^
  3. ^ Kurabe, Keita. 2014. "Phonological inventories of seven Jingphoish languages and dialects." In Kyoto University Linguistic Research 33: 57-88, Dec 2014.

Bibliography

  • George van Driem (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.