Singpho
A language of India
| Population | 2,500 (Morey 2006). |
| Region | Assam, Tinsukia District, Margherita Subdivision, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar districts; Arunachal Pradesh, Lohit, and Changlang districts. |
| Alternate names | Jingphaw, Kachin, Sing-Fo |
| Dialects | Lexical similarity: 50% with Jingpho [kac] of Myanmar. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Jingpho-Konyak-Bodo, Jingpho-Luish, Jingpho |
| Language use | Used only in the home. Also use Assamese [asm]. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: Less than 40%. Need for vernacular literacy is expressed by the community. Bible portions: 1907. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Many loans from Khamti [kht]. ‘Kachin’ refers to a cultural, rather than a linguistic group. A Scheduled Tribe. Agriculturalists. Buddhist, syncretism. |
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