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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. Most, however, understand Mutwang (Matwang), the standard dialect, and basis of written Rawang. [2]
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 .
Grierson (1928:24) tentatively put Nung (referring to the whole Nungish family, based on what was probably a Waqdamkong Rawang wordlist from J.T.O. Barnard) in the Lolo subgroup of Lolo-Mos'o, remarking, "The language appears to form a bridge between Lolo and Kachin".
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)
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
Dulong/Rawang is a Tibeto-Burman language cluster spoken on both sides of the China/Myanmar border just south and east of Tibet.Within Myanmar, the people who speak the Dulong language (possibly up to 100,000 people) live in northern Kachin State, particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Mali Hka River valleys.
The term "Kachin language" may refer to the Jinghpaw language or any of the other languages spoken by the Jinghpaw peoples, such as Lisu, Lashi, Rawang, Zaiwa, Lhawo Vo, and Achang. These languages are from distinct branches of the highest level of the Tibeto-Burman family .
The Sino-Tibetan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series 3), edited by Graham Thurgood & Randy J. LaPolla. London & New York: Routledge, 727 + xxii pp., Jan. 2003 (ISBN 0-7007-1129-5). Paperback version released April 2007 (ISBN 978-0-415-77295-2). Rawang Texts, with Grammatical Analysis and English Translation, by Randy J. LaPolla & Dory Poa.
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