Endangered Languages Project - Singpho

Singpho

^{[aka Sing-Fo, Kachin, Jingphaw]}

Classification: Sino-Tibetan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Sing-Fo, Kachin, Jingphaw
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Bodish
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sgp
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Turung
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		mutually unintelligible with Jingphaw/Kachin spoken in Burma (Morey 2006)

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Information from: “"A comprehensive comparative grammar of the Turung and Singpho languages of Assam" HRELP Abstract” . Morey, Stephen (2005)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~2,500
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (Morey 2006)

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Assam, Tinsukia District, Margherita Subdivision, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar districts; Arunachal Pradesh, Lohit, and Changlang districts

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

27.5569,96.7456

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing