Jingpho–Luish languages

{{Short description|Group of Sino-Tibetan languages belonging the Sal branch}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Jingpho–Luish

|altname=Kachin–Luic

|region=Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Sal

|child1=Jingpho (Kachin)

|child2=Luish (Asakian)

|glotto=jing1259

|glottorefname=Jingpho–Luish

}}

The Jingpho-Luish, Jingpho-Asakian, Kachin–Luic, or Kachinic languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages belonging the Sal branch. They are spoken in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and consist of the Jingpho (also known as Kachin) language and the Luish ({{aka}} Asakian) languages Sak, Kadu, Ganan, Andro, Sengmai, and Chairel. Ethnologue and Glottolog include the extinct or nearly extinct Taman language in the Jingpo branch, but Huziwara (2016)Huziwara, Keisuke. 2016. [https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2433/219018 タマン語の系統再考 / On the genetic position of Taman reconsidered]. In Kyoto University Linguistic Research 35, p.1-34. {{doi|10.14989/219018}} considers it to be unclassified within Tibeto-Burman.

James Matisoff (2013)Matisoff, James A. 2013. [https://www.academia.edu/16300693/Re-examining_the_genetic_position_of_Jingpho_putting_flesh_on_the_bones_of_the_Jinghpho_Luish_Relationship Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship]. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(2). 1–106. provides phonological and lexical evidence in support of the Jingpho-Asakian (Jingpho–Luish) grouping, dividing it into two subgroups, namely Jingphoic and Asakian. Proto-Luish has been reconstructed by Huziwara (2012)Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原, 敬介. 2012. [http://hdl.handle.net/2433/182194 Rui sogo no saikou ni mukete ルイ祖語の再構にむけて] [Toward a reconstruction of Proto-Luish]. In Kyoto University Linguistic Research 京都大学言語学研究 (2012), 31: 25-131. {{doi|10.14989/182194}} and Matisoff (2013).

Jingpho-Luish languages contain many sesquisyllables.