Type Political Subdivision, Region & Mountain
Usage Bengali, Assamese, English (British)
Meaning & History
The well known British English pronunciation of Ga Hkyeng, which means ‘red soil’ in Jingpho.
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Type Political Subdivision & Region
Scripts ကချင်(Burmese)
Meaning & History
From a collective term for various ethnolinguistic groups that inhibit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar, itself of unclear origin. This is the name of a state of Myanmar, as well as a geographical region in the northeastern part of the country.