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Rawang, also known as Krangku, Kiutze (Qiuze), and Ch’opa, is a Sino-Tibetan language of India and Burma. Rawang has a high degree of internal diversity, and some varieties are not mutually intelligible .
The Rawang people are an ethnic group who inhabit far northern Kachin State of Burma (Myanmar) and speak the Rawang language. Myanmar is home to an estimated 65,000 Rawang, most of whom live in the Putao Valley .
Recently, LaPolla has proposed a group of features that are characteristic of Rawang (LaPolla 2012:126), and also offered a reconstruction of person-marking in Proto-Dulong-Rawang (LaPolla 2013:470). Scott DeLancey (2015) [ 3 ] suggests that Nungish may be part of a wider Central Tibeto-Burman group.
Rawang may refer to: . Rawang language, a Sino-Tibetan language of India and Myanmar (Burma) . Nung Rawang, an ethnic group in Myanmar; Rawang, Selangor, town in Selangor, Malaysia, the district capital of Gombak until 1997
A few other languages like the Lahta language who lack traditional writing use Karenic scripts. Pa'o does not have its own script. [12] In the north, the Jingpho language (or Kachin language) is the main language of a larger Kachin language group, mostly in the Jingpho-Luish branch of Sino-Tibetan including: Kadu; Ganan; Sak (or Atsa)
Kachin is an ethnicity that comprises various linguistic groups with overlapping territories and integrated social structures. Contemporary usage of Kachin relates to a grouping of six ethnicities; Rawang , the Lisu , the Jingpo , the Zaiwa , the Lashi/Lachik and the Lawngwaw/Maru.
Note: This map is based on 1972 Burmese census. Other ethnic groups like Rakhine, Kayah, Pa’O and Shanni might not appear on this map because government merge sub ethnic groups into a large single ethnic group. (i.e. Kayah and Pa’O are Karen sub groups so government merge them into a one single ethnic identity.)
Related ethnic groups Derung , Nu , Rawang The Taron or T’rung (တရုမ်း [ta.rumː] ) are an ethnic group in the Himalayan foothills of northern Kachin State , Myanmar , whose population is declining to the point where they may disappear entirely.