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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.
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.
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. [9]
George van Driem put the Mao language as one of the Angami-Pochuri languages, classified as an independent branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages. [3] Although classification differs in most other accounts, it is considered [by whom?] as one of the languages forming the Naga genus of the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family. [4]
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.
A clickable map of the official language or lingua franca spoken in each state/province of South Asia excluding the Maldives. Indo-Aryan languages are in green, Iranic languages in dark green, Dravidian languages in purple, Tibeto-Burman languages in red, and Turkic languages in orange.
The Meitei people, also known as Meetei, [12] Manipuri people, [1] are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group native to the Indian State of Manipur.They form the largest and dominant ethnic group of Manipur in Northeast India.
They live in the Lushai Hills' southeast section. Maras are consist of five groups Tlosai, Vyhtu, Zyhno, Hawthai and Chapi in India and Saby, Lialai and Heima in Myanmar (Burma).Although the Maras are said to have originated in the north, it is known that they all traveled from various locations in central Chin State to their current residences ...