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The Jino (also spelled Jinuo) people (simplified Chinese: 基诺族; traditional Chinese: 基諾族; pinyin: Jīnuòzú, endonym: [citation needed]) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
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.
The name "Tibeto-Burman" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Richardson Logan, who added Karen in 1858. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The third volume of the Linguistic Survey of India , edited by Sten Konow , was devoted to the Tibeto-Burman languages of British India .
The Tibeto-Burman languages of south-west China have been heavily influenced by Chinese over a long period, leaving their affiliations difficult to determine. The grouping of the Bai language , with one million speakers in Yunnan, is particularly controversial, with some workers suggesting that it is a sister language to Chinese.
Nishi Yoshio 西 義郎 (1995) "A Brief Survey of the Controversy in Verb Pronominalization in Tibeto-Burman." New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax. Y. Nishi, J. A. Matisoff and Y. Nagano (eds). New horizons in Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax. (Senri ethnological studies 41), pp. 1–16. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
The second group of people to reach Assam are considered to be speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages. [34] [35] The first Tibeto-Burman speakers started coming into Assam some time before three thousand years ago from the north and the east. [15] [36] And they have continued coming into Assam till the present times. [34]
The Tripuri people speak Kokborok (also known as Tipra), a Tibeto-Burman language. Tripuri is the official language of Tripura, India. Tripuri is the official language of Tripura, India. There are estimated to be more than one million speakers of the dialects of Tripuri in Tripura, and additional speakers in Mizoram and Assam in India, as well ...
The Mizo people, historically called the Lushais, [h] are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group primarily from Mizoram in northeastern India.They speak Mizo, one of the state's official languages and its lingua franca.