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The greater name for all the Kachin peoples in their own Jingpo language is the Jinghpaw. Other endonyms include Zaiwa, Lechi, Lisu, Maru, Hkahku, etc. [ 5 ] [ b ] The Kachin people are an ethnic affinity of several tribal groups, known for their fierce independence, disciplined fighting skills, complex clan inter-relations, craftsmanship ...
Kachin women in traditional dress. The Kachin peoples (Jingpo: Ga Hkyeng, lit. ' "red soil" '; Burmese: ကချင်လူမျိုး; MLCTS: ka. hkyang lu myui:, pronounced [kətɕɪ̀ɰ̃ lù mjó]), more precisely the Kachin Wunpong (Jingpo: Jinghpaw Wunpawng, "The Kachin Confederation") or simply Wunpong ("The Confederation"), are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the ...
Jinghpaw is written using a modified Latin alphabet; a Burmese alphabet is used by some speakers, but it has largely been phased out. Jinghpaw syllable finals can consist of vowels, nasals, or oral stops. The Turung of Assam in India speak a Jingpo dialect with many Assamese loanwords, called Singpho, which shares 50% lexical similarity with ...
1-year-old Kahleb Collins was last seen in September, but his disappearance was never reported, police allege . On Dec. 8, Kahleb's family members were in a car crash that killed father Steven ...
Kachin State (Burmese: ကချင်ပြည်နယ်; Kachin: Jinghpaw Mungdaw) is the northernmost state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet and Yunnan, respectively), Shan State to the south, and Sagaing Region and India (Arunachal Pradesh) to the west. It lies between north latitude 23° 27' and 28° 25 ...
His parents were nearby, but no witnesses to his presumed abduction have been identified, and no subsequent confirmed sightings of him have been made. [26] 19 June 1991 Tanong Po-arn: 55 Bangkok, Thailand Thai labor leader Tanong disappeared after his car was found abandoned in Bangkok's Rat Burana District, shortly after a military coup ...
The bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a metal drum near a burned down store in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire in 1985, while McWaters' body was found nearby in 2000 together with a still-unidentified body of a little girl, whose DNA analysis showed that she was the daughter of Rasmussen. The identity of the ...
He found that the majority of genetic differences between humans (85.4 percent) were found within a population, 8.3 percent were found between populations within a race and 6.3 percent were found to differentiate races (Caucasian, African, Mongoloid, South Asian Aborigines, Amerinds, Oceanians, and Australian Aborigines in his study).